Players at Mississippi’s Treasure Bay Casino ran for address after a single shooter was fired from a gun Fri night. Several eyewitnesses hid under tables. Many were described as scared or bewildered.

Following the discharge, cassino employees and players ran inward different directions, according to witnesses speech production to local media.

The soul with the gun suffered “a really superficial leg wound,” WLOX, a local Mississippi TV station, initially reported. There were no other injuries.

The gunshot turned come out to live from an inadvertent venting of a firearm. The gun was in the person’s bag when it discharged.

Following the incident, 1 eyewitness, Jeremy Pellegrin, told WLOX he had simply won at roulette. Then, he heard a sound. “I just hear a loud pop,” Pellegrin said.

At first, he hid under a tabularize with the dealers. It was scary, he recalled.

Then, Pellegrin took out a electric cell phone and started to record book the pandemonium.

Nobody knew what to do, which path to run, where to go,” Pellegrin told the TV station. “Everybody pointing inwards different directions. It was a helter-skelter scene.”

He heard the auditory sensation of flip-flops and shoes hitting the floor. Some shoes reportedly felled seam away as the people ran.

During his video, shortly after the shot, 1 could try a woman scream out, “Did anybody ascertain anything?” a adult male later shouted, “Everybody place upright down!”

“The Biloxi PD showed upward passing fast,” Pellegrin added. “And when they showed up, i cerebrate they decided to readable the casino out.”

Man With Firearm Was Charged

It is illegal to experience a weapon system inwards the casino. So, the someone with the gun in his pocket was charged with discharging a small-arm in metropolis limits, the write up said. He was non identified in a local intelligence report.

Following the incident, Treasure Bay CEO Susan Varnes explained inward a statement that “No other guests or crew were involved or injured, and the Biloxi Police Department responded quickly.

We are … proud that our crew handled the situation professionally, clearing the casino storey quickly until the matter could be investigated, making sure no more ace was inwards danger.”

The Mississippi Gulf Coast casino has been clear troll the clock inward recent months with health safeguards in place. Last March, it was shuttered for ii months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Camera Turned on Quickly

Over the weekend, Pellegrin multiple times watched the video he took of the disoriented and tense situation, WLOX reported.

Why did he accept out his prison cell sound to commence transcription a video? He simply had an instinctive reaction.

“In these situations, I move around my photographic camera on quick, because you never live what could happen,” Pellegrin told WLOX.

“I definitely wanted to puddle sure that if anything gaga did happen, that people got to see what was really sledding on inside.”