After the shooting, panic in the United States for two false alarms

A feeling of psychosis has invaded the Americans today after a series of shots fired over the last two days in the country and caused a scene of chaos in the heart of New York, where thousands of people ran into the terror to confuse the sound of a motorcycle that of a weapon.

The mbadive robbery in iconic Times Square caused minor injuries to nine people, who were treated at nearby hospitals, reported local channel ABC 7, channel 7.

Later, police expelled a headquarters of the USA Today newspaper located in McLean, Virginia, before a false alarm turned into an armed man, the media themselves reported on its website. .

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The police went to the scene after receiving an alarm call from an alleged witness.

In a context of widespread chaos, the authorities carried out an energetic operation with alarms throughout the building, agents armed with rifles and bullet-proof vests and even a helicopter flying over the area.

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At that time, on Twitter, the Fairfax County Police in Virginia explained that he was responding to reports of a "man with a gun" in the area and told asked neighbors to avoid going through this area.

But later, police said they did not find "evidence of violence" and investigate what happened.

The two false alarms occurred after the weekend. Two white men armed with badault rifles opened fire, one in a mall in El Paso, Texas, and the other in a recreational area in Dayton, in Ohio, leaving 31 people. dead in total.

The police received several calls to 911 and urged people not to panic.

For his part, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio stressed that "what people felt was real" and that "no one should live in constant fear of armed violence".

"This country is better than this one, we will fix it now," he added, quoted by the EFE news agency.

According to information from the Armed Violence Archive (GVA), a group documenting incidents of gun violence in the United States this year, 33,499 shootings took place in the country, killing 8,896 people and injuring 17,582 people, including there are 297 children under 11 years old.