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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-23-2015, 09:10 PM:

Grand 16 Theater
Johnston Street
Lafayette, LA

Eight people wounded in a shooting at about 8pm CDT during a screening of Trainwreck. Reports of shooter "no longer active" and one other fatality.

Posted by Michael Putlack (Member # 6523) on 07-23-2015, 09:42 PM:

Update from CNN :

(CNN)A shooting at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater left at least two people dead and nine others injured, health officials said.

Clay Henry with Acadian Ambulance said the wounded were taken to three area hospitals. He described the injuries as "wide and varied."

The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Sgt. James Anderson of the Louisiana State Police said. It wasn't clear if the shooter was included among the dead list

The shooting inside the Grand Theatre 16 involved "multiple victims," the police department tweeted. Police said they received the call about 7:30 p.m. CT.

The scene immediately after the shooting was chaotic.

"A whole bunch of girls started screaming and we heard that someone was shot," Roxy Martinez told CNN affiliate KATC. "There were a lot of people running."

Her brother saw a woman who had been shot in the stomach.

"I see a lady full of blood in a dress," Robert Martinez said. "She was just looking at me in complete fear."

Todd Moffatt, manager of a Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant in the area, said 20 to 30 emergency vehicles had arrived on the scene. The area was locked down, he said.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal tweeted, "I'm on my way to Lafayette right now. Please say a prayer for the victims at Grand Theatre and their families."

Lafayette is a city of about 120,000 people 60 miles west of Baton Rouge.

The shooting happened days after the conviction of James Holmes in the July 19, 2012, Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting that left 12 people dead and 70 people wounded.

Posted by Don Furr (Member # 1469) on 07-23-2015, 10:10 PM:

Reports of 3 dead now.

Posted by Jarod Reddig (Member # 6363) on 07-23-2015, 11:32 PM:

Wow that's horrible!!

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 07-23-2015, 11:46 PM:

Here's a local live update feed.

Ten injured. Suspect had a criminal history.

Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 07-23-2015, 11:59 PM:

I wonder if this is another case of a disagreement over a cell phone or talking, if the shooter was targeting someone, or if it was a planned shooting. Regardless, this hits way too close to home.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-24-2015, 12:31 AM:

I fear it could have been inspired by the Colorado trial, at least in part.

Sadly, this business is such an easy and high profile target for individuals who feel inclined to do something like this. There's no real security at a theater and never really can be (if we started putting airport-style x-ray screening into theaters, no-one would ever go to one again), and whenever this happens it makes headlines around the world, despite the fact that there are probably more deaths on that city's roads every week than there were in tonight's incident.

Very sad and very frustrating.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-24-2015, 05:17 PM:

It's the kind of thing that makes the news because of the very fact that it's unusual.

Unfortunately, the media will blow this way out of proportion with headlines like "Is it safe to go to the movies anymore?" without regard to the fact that there are at least 100,000 or more showings of movies that take place every day in this country with no incident at all.

Posted by Rusty Gordon (Member # 2210) on 07-24-2015, 05:35 PM:

N.R.A. Proposes Sweeping Ban of the Movies... (Satire)
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/n-r-a-proposes-sweeping-ban-on-movies