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Las Vegas: Police respond to reports of shooting at Circus Circus Hotel near Adventuredome
Las Vegas Metro police responded to reports of a possible shooting at a Circus Circus hotel on the Strip.
Las Vegas Metro police investigated reports of a possible shooting at a hotel on the Strip Saturday evening.
Officers responded shortly before 5:40 p.m. to a hotel in the 2800 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard, near Circus Circus Drive, following reports of gunfire and fights.
While penning this article, LVMPD had not found “no victims or evidence” confirming a shooting. However, out of an “abundance of caution,” the hotel was evacuated.
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“There are preliminary reports of shots fired in the 2900 block of Las Vegas Boulevard. No victims have been located. There is a heavy police presence in the area,” LVMPD stated in an X (formerly Twitter) post.
Following false alarm, ‘people started running’ at alleged Circus Circus Hotel shooting
Metro detectives reported that a sudden fight erupted inside the Circus Circus hotel, prompting multiple individuals to flee the property. The chaos spread outside, leading to additional physical altercations among the crowd, according to Metro police.
“People started crying. People started yelling, and a lot of people started running,” said Shahiera Langendam, a guest at Circus Circus, told Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“This was actually the most scariest thing I have ever experienced.”
“A woman told me she heard gunshots,” Langendam further recalled. “We heard a lot of stories about people possibly stabbing or shooting. That’s what I heard.”
However, by Saturday evening, LVMPD confirmed that no further evidence of a shooting had been found. Metro police later stated that “All reports of gunfire have been unfounded at this time.”
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“Detectives learned that a fight broke out inside of the venue causing numerous individuals to run out of the property,” Metro police said in another press release later the day.
“This caused panic amongst the crowd and several other fights broke out outside of the property.”
