Police: Motorcycle backfiring 原因（となる）s panic in Times Square
NEW YORK (AP) - Frantic people 緊急発進するd to get out of Times Square on Tuesday evening, 続けざまに猛撃するing on theater doors to find a place to hide after the sound of a motorcycle backfiring 原因（となる）d 恐れる that 射撃s were 存在 解雇する／砲火／射撃d in the wake of 集まり 狙撃s in other American cities.
The New York Police Department, which said it received 多重の 911 calls about the tumult, tweeted a 安心: "There is no #ActiveShooter in #TimesSquare. Motorcycles backfiring while passing through sounded like gun 発射s."
"Please don't panic. The Times Square area is very 安全な!" the department 追加するd.
But after 31 people were killed in two 集まり 狙撃s in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in いっそう少なく than 24 hours over the 週末, the sudden 発射する／解雇する of loud noises Tuesday night had people 叫び声をあげるing as they fled in one of New York City's most popular areas.
"You hear a noise, you run. That's the 明言する／公表する of this nation. We're petrified," Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a 民主党員, said Wednesday as he 反映するd on the panic.
ビデオ （映画の）フィート数 showed the throngs 急ぐing out of the busy 観光旅行，事業 and entertainment area, with some taking cover behind 乗り物s.
Gideon Glick, an actor in "To Kill a Mockingbird" on Broadway, said the show at the Shubert Theater had to be stopped because of the 大混乱.
"叫び声をあげるing 非軍事のs tried to 嵐／襲撃する our theater for safety. The audience started 叫び声をあげるing and the cast fled the 行う／開催する／段階," he wrote on Twitter. "This is the world we live in. This cannot be our world."
The 解雇する／砲火／射撃 Department of New York said nine people were 傷つける altogether, with six 輸送（する）d to hospitals. Most 傷害s were minor.
