Chaos broke out Sunday evening at JFK airport in New York after reports of shots fired inside the Airport’s Terminal 8.
A massive police response flooded the airport in Queens, responding to reports of an active shooter on Sunday evening.
Dan Archer reported ‘panic’ as gates were closed at security.
Shortly after 9:30 p.m. ET, a woman told an officer about the alleged gunman, leading police to hunt for an armed man, the New York Post reported.
Evacuated passengers took cover behind cement traffic barriers as a New York Police Department (NYPD) Emergency Services Unit officer with automatic weapons scoured the area.
Airline passengers tweeted that their flights were being diverted from the airport, with one passenger saying his flight was diverted to Buffalo, WPIX reported.
Police are also closing streets in the area. The Van Wyck Expressway approaching JFK Airport is closed. Drivers are urged to avoid the area, consider alternate routes and allow for additional travel time.
There have been no reports of injuries and no shooter has been found, NBC News’ Tom Winter reports.
Port authority Police later confirmed that there was no shooter.
Hundreds of stranded passengers were reportedly walking around outside the terminal after it was evacuated during the police search.
All inbound flights have been delayed until further notice, contact your carrier for more information on individual flights.
We were sitting on the el-al אל-על plane, we were supposed to leave at 7:00, instead we left at 9:00!
It was probably a test to see how fast the response would be in case something like this would really happen
What does that mean #5. This is exactly what police are supposed to do. Thank you to them for keeping us safe
i dont think its the police’s fault
ppl- citizens of the US are getting paranoid
The police should have better things to do
The police stoped searching . They did not find any evidence to confirm gun shots.
On the plane now can’t disembark..
Some one wanted to create panic
Right now it sounds like the shooting in the mall that happened a few days ago….shots were heard and pandemonium subsequently happened but no evidence of shots or a shooter or anything at all were found.