Two Cleared After Unfounded Shooting Report At Port Authority Bus Terminal

FORT LEE, N.J. -- Two men were questioned and released following an unfounded report of a man with a gun at the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan Thursday morning, Daily Voice has learned.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bus terminal in Manhattan.
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Jerry DeMarco

12/03/2015 10:30 a.m.

The 911 callers "were mistaken" and didn't do anything criminal, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo told Daily Voice.

Word traveled, however.

"Somebody put it out there and a ton of media rushed to the terminal," Pentangelo said. "Then they left."

"The call came in as an active shooter at the terminal," a law enforcement source told Daily Voice, adding that two people were being questioned.

The news came as a relief to a Daily Voice reader from Maywood.

"They told my husband at work not to enter the city because there was an active shooter at the terminal," she said.

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