Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - A disturbance occurred Sunday night during a Drumworks Music concert at Buffalo's Outer Harbor, leaving seven people hospitalized.
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Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia spoke in detail Monday afternoon on the incident that escalated when some patrons say they thought a weapon was present. "Someone yelled something about a firearm, which caused people to scatter and caused people to run in the same direction, numerous people fell [as a result]," Gramaglia said. "Seven people were taken to the hospital by various methods. Two people went to Sister's [Hospital], the other five people went to ECMC, the worst of it was a broken arm. The report that we got from the other individuals were very minor bumps, bruises, abrasions, thankfully, nothing serious."
There were several reports of a loud bang heard at the concert. The police speculate that it was somebody knocking over the bike racks.
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This hasn't been the first safety concern this month with concert events at the Outer Harbor. The weekend prior to last, there were some reports of people walking Buffalo's skyway as traffic was backed up significantly. Those who ordered rideshares were unable to access the vehicles they ordered to pick them up at the harbor. However, that no longer seems to be a concern for the city, as Gramaglia reports that the traffic flow for this Sunday's concert went relatively well, with new protocols that were put in place following those reports.
"This incident caused the concert to pause for what I'm told was about 10 minutes. Security inside the venue, handled it with the assistance of Buffalo Police, who were on the outer perimeter, as we detail officers to every event that occurs there. Officers from other districts were called in as a precaution, they were able to get order restored. The concert started up again, relatively quickly. There was, I believe, one more act after that, which had a short set, the concert ended. I got a call from our "Special Events Captain" about midnight who said that pretty much everything was cleared out, egress seemed to have gone fine."
Gramaglia adds that there are no plans to increase police presence on the perimeter of the events as he believes that there was adequate staffing that night. He also remind the public that the Outer Harbor caps the amount of tickets they sell to these concert events to 5,000.
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