WASHINGTON, DC. (THECOUNT) — False rumors of shots fired sent people into a panic during the Washington, DC Pride Parade on Saturday. And in New Orleans, a man was arrested while carry a real gun on Saturday.
The panic caused in DC was said to have been started by a false belief that a gun had been fired during Saturday’s festivities. That rumor sent people running through the streets of the nation’s capital on Saturday evening, city officials confirmed.
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Police said seven were transported to area hospitals. Some individuals who fled sustained minor injuries, according to officials.
“As the officers were going to the scene, there was a crowd of people going away from it and some of the individuals in the crowd said there was a man with a gun and that someone had fired a shot,” said Guillermo Rivera, reports KABC.
In New Orleans, a 25-year-old man stands accused of bringing a loaded gun to the Saturday New Orleans Pride parade, according to New Orleans police.
Cody Jackson was arrested on one count of illegal possession of weapons at a demonstration after he was seen with a gun within 1,000 feet of the parade route. No shots were fired and no threats were made, reports Fox8Live.
Jackson was detained and arrested by an NOPD bicycle unit around 7 p.m. near the intersection of Barracks and Royal streets. Nobody was injured.