NEW YORK : Two terminals at New York’s JFK Airport resumed normal operations Monday after overnight reports of shots fired prompted evacuations and grounded and diverted flights. The reports, which led to frightening moments for fliers Sunday night, were later determined to be unfounded and the airport was given an all-clear.
Reports that shots were fired in Kennedy Airport’s Terminal 8 came in around 9:30 p.m., leading to precautionary evacuations. Witnesses reported hearing two shots in the terminal but no police officers reported any suspicious activity. A short time later, police closed the airport’s Terminal 1 after they said they received additional reports of shots fired in that terminal. The Van Wyck Expressway approaching the airport also was shut down. “Preliminary investigation does not indicate shorts were fired at JFK,” the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement released on Twitter. “There are no injuries. At this time, no gun shells or other evidence of shots fired has been found.”
An official told NBC News that cheering, clapping and banging from people watching the Olympic Games on televisions around the terminal may have been misinterpreted as a fight and gunshots.
