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Shortly after the false reports from the zoo, DC Police confirmed that two juvenile males were shot blocks away from the zoo. Both victims have been transported to a nearby hospital, and the status of the victims is unknown.

On Twitter, some visitors inside the zoo said the false alarm caused panic.
"Within 10 minutes people calmed," Twitter Ashley (@WeinDC) wrote.
"But people were running and carrying kids and screaming gun. It wasn't great."

Another Twitter user by the name of Sammie Fritts said that her and her husband left immediately after hearing others shout about a shooter.
'We didn't stay long enough to find out," she wrote. "My husband saw my anxiety attack about to happen and got me out of there asap."