A antheral tried to get done information astatine the US Open with a gun, and allegedly pointed the limb astatine a constabulary serviceman erstwhile helium was confronted, according to a source.
The scary incidental unfolded astir 3:15 p.m. Saturday arsenic the man, who hasn’t been publically identified, was going done information astatine the famed tennis tourney successful Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
When information unit confronted the gun-toting man, helium allegedly pulled retired the limb and brandished it astatine a bull earlier moving toward the parking lot, the root said.
No shots were fired and nary 1 was hurt, according to constabulary and sources.
Police confirmed idiosyncratic was taken into custody “in the vicinity” of the Open, but would not springiness details.
It’s not wide precisely wherever the incidental took place, but a spokesperson for the US Tennis Association confirmed to The Post that idiosyncratic was apprehended successful the parking batch with a gun.
The tennis title matches proceed until Sept. 11.