UPDATE: Around 9:15 p.m. Saturday Metro police said all reports of a shooting were unfounded. The story has been updated with the most recent information from Las Vegas Metro police.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Metro police said reports of a shooting at a Las Vegas Strip hotel Saturday were unfounded after detectives learned that the reports stemmed from a fight that broke out inside the property.
Just before 5:40 p.m., police responded to reports of a possible shooting inside a hotel property in the 2800 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard near Circus Circus Drive.
Around 6:30 p.m. Saturday, police said no victims or evidence of a shooting were found. The hotel property was evacuated out of an “abundance of caution,” and there was a heavy police presence in the area for hours following the reports, police said.
Metro detectives said that a fight broke out inside of the venue, causing serval people to run out of the property. That caused panic amongst the crowd and several other fights broke out outside of the property, according to Metro police.
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