Crime & Safety

Panic At Bucks Co. Walmart After Men Yell 'Active Shooter': Cops

Police are looking for a group of men who yelled "active shooter" at a busy Bucks Co. Walmart Saturday, causing a panic.

Police are looking for a group of men who yelled "active shooter" at a busy Bucks Co. Walmart Saturday, causing a panic.
Police are looking for a group of men who yelled "active shooter" at a busy Bucks Co. Walmart Saturday, causing a panic. (Warminster Twp PD)

WARMINSTER, PA — Panic ensued at a busy Bucks County Walmart Saturday afternoon after a group of men falsely yelled "active shooter" and told shoppers to "get on the ground" because someone had a gun.

It happened around 1:45 p.m. at the Walmart on E. Street Road in Warminster.

The incident caused many shoppers to rush out of the store, police said. The suspects, four to five men and a woman who was seen laughing during the incident, are wanted for making terroristic threats and reckless endangerment, police said.

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Authorities obtained surveillance photos, which show the suspects leaving the store grinning.

The suspects are described as black males who left in a silver or light blue Nissan Rogue bearing PA registration KCT-3096.

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Anyone with information should contact Warminster Police at (215) 672-1000.

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