{"id":595896,"date":"2021-07-18T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=595896"},"modified":"2021-07-18T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T14:36:16","slug":"pandemonium-breaks-out-in-d-c-ballpark-after-shooting-stadium-emptied-game-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pandemonium-breaks-out-in-d-c-ballpark-after-shooting-stadium-emptied-game-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemonium Breaks Out In D.C. Ballpark After Shooting; Stadium Emptied, Game Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpandemonium-breaks-out-in-d-c-ballpark-after-shooting-stadium-emptied-game-postponed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=595896&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/nats-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A shooting just outside the third base gate at Nationals ballpark in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night set off a chaotic scene, with spectators fleeing throughout the stadium and some even scrambling over railings onto the ballfield and taking cover inside the dugouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice said there were three victims: a woman who was found wounded outside the stadium and two others who showed up at a hospital a short time later and were taken into custody,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2021\/07\/17\/nationals-park-gunshots\/\">reports<\/a> The Washington Post.&nbsp;While police <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCPoliceDept\/status\/1416578670651707393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a tweet about 10 p.m. that there was \u201cno ongoing threat,\u201d officials decided to postpone the game and clear the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Ashan Benedict, executive assistant chief of police for DC\u2019s Metropolitan Police Department, said fans were never in danger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to assure the public that at no time during this incident were individuals inside the stadium attending the game in any kind of danger. This was not an active shooter incident and it\u2019s not being investigated as such. Everything took place outside the stadium,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But that came too late. After the shots rang out, ballpark officials \u201cdid not address the gunshots over the loudspeakers for at least five minutes, leading to \u2018pandemonium,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/17\/nationals-game-shooting-causes-chaos-inside-stadium\/\">according<\/a> to The New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the staff there like deer in the headlights,\u201d attendee Jaime Varela told the paper. \u201cThey didn\u2019t know what was going on, they didn\u2019t know what to tell us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActive shooter situation outside @Nationals Park tonight. Thankfully safe, but definitely a scary moment. Thank you @DCPoliceDept for keeping us safe,\u201d Varela wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.219730941704\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Active shooter situation outside <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nationals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Nationals<\/a> Park tonight. Thankfully safe, but definitely a scary moment. Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCPoliceDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DCPoliceDept<\/a> for keeping us safe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Fi0thS1C9\">pic.twitter.com\/3Fi0thS1C9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jaime A. Varela (@jvarela42) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jvarela42\/status\/1416579577460269056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fans scrambled as police sirens blared. Some fans close to the field couldn\u2019t go up the stairs to the concourse, so they ran onto the field, climbing over railings. Other ducked down behind seats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRc2zYLgsxo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"0\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York Post reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12.200945626478\">\n<p><em>Players could be seen running into the stands, including Padres&nbsp;shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., who grabbed family members and brought them into the clubhouse,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdutKevinAcee\/status\/1416572597756698624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in video posted<\/a> by Kevin Acee, the Padres reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune.&nbsp;Nationals pitcher Patrick Corbin was one of several people who fled for the concourse. Others&nbsp;rushed into bathrooms&nbsp;or suites,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nleimbach\/status\/1416574335238787075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according&nbsp;<\/a>to an NBC Washington photojournalist.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When ballpark officials finally addressed the commotion, they asked fans to shelter-in-place inside the stadium, according to Scott Fear, vice president for public safety and security for the Washington Nationals, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/17\/us\/washington-nationals-park-shooting-saturday\/index.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cA message on the scoreboard shortly after the shooting told fans to remain inside the baseball park, but it was later updated to say it was safe for fans to leave the stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe held shelter in place for approximately 10 to 15 minutes. At that time we said fans were allowed, not that they had to, but they were allowed to exit through Center Field Gates and Right Field Gates on the other side of the stadium, because MPD had let me know that it was safe enough that they could go outside, out of the gate that way,\u201d Fear said.<\/p>\n<p>The postponed game will resume at 1 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting just outside the third base gate at Nationals ballpark in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night set off a chaotic scene, with spectators fleeing throughout the stadium and some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}