The Morning Call, police attended the scene shortly before 11pm on Saturday (August 13), after a single gunshot was reported to be heard between Main Street and Lehigh Street.It’s unclear how many people were involved in the shooting, however in a press release sent from the scene, Bethlehem police chief Michelle Kott said “law enforcement [was] on site and in control of the situation”, and that there was “no known continuing threat to the public”.
Kott reportedly noted that an investigation had been launched and described the shooting as an “isolated incident”.Alarmed by the shooting, festival-goers were reportedly sent into a panic that led to several being injured in a stampede.
One attendee, Christina, told The Morning Call that she’d witnessed a particularly chaotic surge of bodies running opposite Plaza Tropical. “We tried to get as close to a tent as possible, but that just wasn’t enough,” she said. “They were still coming directly at us.
We were watching people fall and get stepped on. So we quickly grabbed the children and we threw them around a tent to protect them.”Christina went on to say that “no one knew” what was happening and in the midst of the stampede, she encountered a man who’d been “stepped on”.
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