BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — Buffalo Police say on Sunday night a fight broke out near the stage at the Drumwork Fest show and people started pushing and shoving each other.
Buffalo Police Commissioner said people began fleeing the area and some were hurt in the process. According to Gramaglia, seven people were transported to local hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries.
What was supposed to be a fun night turned into chaos for Kayla Marshall.
"And then next thing I know we just see people running and so my sister, she grabs my hand to try to keep me with her I guess and it just came out of nowhere. I'm just thinking in my head like, 'Keep your ground. Stay on your feet. Try your best to stay on your feet because once you’re down it's hard to get back up,'' Marshall said.
The hundreds of people running caused Marshall to fall to the ground.
"I was like, 'Oh my god, I'm losing my footing. I'm coming to the ground this is bad,'" she explained, "I just went to the ground and I couldn't get back up. My sister had to help me up."
Marshall was rushed into an ambulance to get checked. She later found out on Monday she fractured her knee.
"It just happened so quick and you really don't know what's going on around you until things actually calm down," she said.
Gramaglia said the privately owned space had its own security handling the incident. Buffalo Police was assisting outside of the concert. He said everything was quickly brought under control.
"Unfortunately things do happen at times. It's how you respond to them and I think the response when very well last night. The coordination between security, our officers on site, the officers that responded from a couple other districts that were heading there in case anything got bigger," Gramaglia said.
He said there were some concerns over possible gunshots, but said they have no evidence of that.
"What we're speculating is that there's a lot of bike racks in use there and when a lot of the crowd went towards the right side of the stage, bike racks were knocked over we know that can cause a loud bang," Gramaglia explained.
Still, Marshall believes more needs to be done for concerts in the future.
"It's happening way too often and when you go to a concert you have to think about if a stampede is going to happen and what's my best — what's my closer exit and what's the best way to get out," she said.
Marshall is recovering from a night that she said was scary and traumatizing.
"I have to stay off of it for a couple of weeks and stuff and gotta miss work, unfortunately," she said.
