SPRINGFIELD -- A large party being held inside a merchant's space at the Eastfield Mall on Boston Road was shut down on Saturday night.

Springfield police spokesman Ryan Walsh said that the police were called to the mall and learned the party had more people than allowed. There were also some permitting issues, according to Walsh, who released the information via Twitter.

A disturbance commenced as the party was being broken up, according to Walsh, but it wasn't immediately clear if anyone was arrested. The "disturbance eventually ended peacefully," Walsh added.

Nicole Sweeney, co-property manager of the Eastfield Mall, said that the party was a teen event hosted by Youthful Expressions dance studio and held inside their space.

"They hired a police detail for the evening who was present at the scene," she added.

Although the location of the party was initially described as inside a vacant store, Sweeney said before the dance studio occupied the space, it was a store called Paintball King.

After news of the disturbance hit social media, it turned into unverified reports of a shooting a the mall.

A video showing young people running through the mall fueled the online rumor.

any update from the Eastfield Mall “shootin”?? (Springfield, MA) **update added since a bunch of dumbasses think i... Posted by Gio Padilla on Saturday, March 24, 2018

A short time later, the Eastfield Mall staff took to its Facebook page to say there was no shooting.

"One of our merchants held an event this evening that quickly filled to capacity, necessitating assistance from the police for crowd control," the mall posted on Facebook. "The event concluded early. No one was injured and no weapon was reported at any time."

The Eastfield Mall, like many malls, has been going through a transition as retail in the U.S. changes.

Built in 1967, Eastfield Mall was Greater Springfield's first enclosed mall. Mountain Development, the New Jersey-based owners of Springfield's Eastfield Mall, bought the former Macy's store there in October for $1 million.

The move, anticipated last spring when the beleaguered retailer put the 127,000-square-foot building on the market, is one more step toward redeveloping the site and "de-malling" it into a mixed use complex.

Mountain Development bought the 825,000-square-foot mall in January 2013 for $3.5 million. About 25 percent of U.S.malls will close by 2022, analysts Credit Suisse reported earlier this year. That would work out to 275 shopping centers in the next five years as more people shop online or at standalone stores and fewer people make an afternoon out of a trip to any mall.

Staff writer Jim Kinney's previous reporting contributed to this story.