“Still shaken” is how some are still feeling after confusion at Lake Eola Park caused thousands of people there to watch the firework scrambling on Monday night.

A noise, thought by the Orlando Police to be personal fireworks, was confused for gunfire as the professional fireworks show got underway.

Jon David, an event organizer who lives near the park, was among the nearly 100,000 people who were out on Monday for the Fireworks at the Fountain’s 45th show.

He was there with his family when he saw people fleeing in their direction.

“Just hordes of people en mass just coming towards our direction. So, my first instinct was to identify what was happening and then my mother suggested that we go right behind this tree for shelter until we could figure out exactly what was happening,” David said.

As he and his family fled to his nearby apartment to shelter, David said his mind immediately went to the shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, earlier in the day and said that put him and others on edge. 

Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolón said during a press conference on Tuesday that the reaction that David and others had made sense, given the timing of another Independence Day incident. 

“People were just being overly reactive to whatever was going on around them, and rightfully so,” Rolón said. “I mean, you don’t want to wait until something strikes you. You want to make sure you protect yourself and your families.”

Many people shared their experience of the night on social media, giving multiple vantage points to the mix of fear and panic. Fortunately, the Orlando Police have so far found no evidence of a shooting.

David said while the event rattled him, that won’t stop him from coming to the park and going to other big events. But now, he said there is something he will always do and suggests that others do the same.

“Prior to coming to the event, think of an escape plan, just in case something like that happens, if there was a shooting,” David said.