Corona movie theater shooting sees 'teen killed and 1 hurt' during showing of Purge film – week after Aurora anniversary
A DEADLY shooting at a movie theater showed one teenager killed and another hurt just one week after the Aurora anniversary.
The victims were watching horror film The Forever Purge when the shooting erupted on Monday night.
The shooting took place just before midnight at the Regal Edwards Corona Crossings, California.
Following the incident, an 18-year-old woman died at the scene, and a 19-year-old was hospitalized. Their names have not been announced.
The movie they were watching is the fifth in The Purge anthology – where the premise is that the government allows all crime, including murder.
The description on the Regal Edwards website for the movie reads: "All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end."
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The Forever Purge has not been listed in the future days' listings at the theater either.
Corporal Tobias Kouroubacalis told the Press-Enterprise that he does not know if detectives are investigating whether or not the movie's theme could be related to the shooting.
A motive has not yet been released, however, investigators are still at the scene.
'STAY AWAY'
People are being asked to stay away from the theater at this time.
Detectives are currently trying to determine whether a third person shot the victims, or if it was an attempted murder-suicide, Kouroubacalis told the outlet.
The attack comes just one week after the ninth anniversary of the Aurora movie theater massacre that left 12 dead and 70 injured.
On July 20, 2012, James Eagan Holmes, then 24, opened fire inside the Century 16 movie theater in a suburb of Denver, Colorado as hundreds of people watched a midnight screening of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.
The blockbuster movie had only started some 15 minutes earlier when Holmes left Theater #9 through an exit door to the right of the screen, propped it open with a small cloth, and walked into the parking lot.
His hair a flash of fiery orange, Holmes put on full tactical gear from head to toe, including a ballistic helmet, gas mask, gloves, and headphones, before storming back towards the theater with music blasting in his ears.
Wielding three firearms, he threw two canisters of tear gas towards the crowd of movie-goers. Many initially believed it to be a stunt for the film until they saw Holmes standing in front of the screen.
And suddenly the armor-clad assailant shot his AR-15 towards the ceiling and then began indiscriminately firing at the rows of innocent people before him.
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