Chaotic scene at Detroit fireworks amid reports of gunshots

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Minutes into tonight's Detroit fireworks mass chaos broke out just blocks from Hart Plaza as people began running from what they believed to be gunshots.

However, Deputy Chief James Tolbert of the Detroit Police Department tells 7 Action News that they have no evidence that any shots were fired.

During the chaos officers in Hart Plaza could be heard telling spectators to "get down" as people ran in all directions.

Police officers told 7 Action News that chaos began when people started screaming that shots had been fired near Congress and Woodward, two blocks north of Hart Plaza.

Tolbert says that the sounds from the fireworks display on the river reverberated off the buildings downtown. He says police believe that the people may have mistaken those sounds for gunshots and that triggered a panic that spread through the crowd.

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