Police Quash Levittown Walmart Shooting Rumor

TULLYTOWN, PA — With the weekend's mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, fresh on the minds of many, police in Tullytown were working to knock down a spreading rumor about a local shooting.

On Facebook Monday afternoon, Tullytown Borough Police said they are aware of a "false report" of an incident at the Walmart at 180 Levittown Center.

"We confirmed with Walmart management ... there is no incident at the store," police wrote in the post.

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Police did not elaborate on details of the rumored incident in the post.

In El Paso, a shooter opened fire Saturday at a Walmart near a mall. At least 22 people were killed in the El Paso shooting, and another nine were killed early Sunday morning in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.