Number 7 Brawl in Perth In December of 2021, a massive brawl
broke out during a screening of Spider-Man: No Way Home at the HOYTS cinema in the Karrinyup Shopping
Centre of Perth, Australia. The authorities were still investigating the incident, as of the latest
updates on the matter, but the row, which was captured on video, was reported to have commenced
as security guards attempted to remove a man from the theater. He was allegedly part of group that
had been causing a disturbance by yelling profanities and throwing items at others
moviegoers. The melee, which sprawled out into the aisles, ultimately came to involve at least ten
people with other audience members gathering to watch it unfold. A security guard was injured as
a result but declined an ambulance. Two men, aged 19 and 20, were each charged with endangering the
life, health or safety of a person and disorderly conduct. HOYTS released a statement condemning the
behavior of the group who’d incited the brawl and claiming that they’d be permanently banned.
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Number 6 Attempted Murder of Adam Lucero 21-year-old Adam Lucero, of Pasadena, California,
was watching “The Shallows” at a movie theater in Santa Rosa, in late June of 2016. In an
unexpected and unprovoked attack, the man sitting behind him in the darkened theater began stabbing
him repeatedly with a large chef’s knife. The assailant would be later identified as Delonte
Hart, aged 23. Lucero reportedly fought for his life and struggled to repel Hart’s onslaught.
The attacker fled the theater and other moviegoers tended to Lucero as they waited for an ambulance.
He was left in critical condition, having suffered a punctured lung and injuries to his neck,
arm and ear. Lucero was hospitalized for two weeks and the stabbing wound to his throat damaged his
voice box, slurring his speech. He could barely walk and suffered from post-traumatic stress in
the aftermath. The police found the knife at the scene, the make and model of which
they traced to a Macy’s store. More gruesome revelations followed. After shoplifting the knife
and three days before attacking Lucero, Hart had killed Cirak Mateos Tesfazgi,
aged 22, on Riley Street. The man had been camped out on the street and Hart stabbed him at least 50
times with a knife identical to the one found in a trash can at the movie theater. Hart was
identified through surveillance footage and arrested. Investigators found Tesfazgi's blood
on his clothing and also lifted his fingerprints from the murder weapon. Hart was initially found
mentally unfit to stand trial and sent to Napa State Hospital. Once his competence was restored,
his trial was set in motion and he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted murder,
in November of 2018. He was given 15 years to life for the former and
12 years for the latter, sentences that were to be served consecutively not concurrently.
Number 5 Murder of Anthony Barajas & Kylee Goodrich
On July the 26th of 2021, TikTok influencer Anthony Barajas, aged 19, was on a first date
with 18-year-old Kylee Goodrich at a movie theater in Corona, California. They’d had dinner and, at
9:35, went to see The Forever Purge, a movie about a national holiday in which all criminal activity,
including murder, is legal for a day. Aside from the two teens there was only a group of four young
men in the theater, one of whom was 20-year-old Joseph Jimenez. His friends ultimately left
because Jimenez was acting strangely, reportedly by mumbling and talking to himself, and after he’d
led them to believe that he was armed. Only he, Barajas and Goodrich remained in the theater.
During the movie, he shot both teens in the head, execution-style, at point blank range. They
sustained critical gunshot injuries and were found by cleaning staff, at around 11:35 pm. Goodrich,
a student at Grand Canyon University, was pronounced dead at the scene while Barajas was
put on a life support and ultimately passed away a few days later. Jimenez had no prior connection
to his victims and the shooting was determined to have been completely random. Riverside County
sheriff’s deputies tracked him down through the friend who’d bought the movie tickets.
Upon their arrival at his home, a trailer in El Cerrito, deputies saw Jimenez yelling and waving
a gun. They took him into custody, without incident, and determined that his weapon
matched the caliber of slugs found at the crime scene. Mental illness was reported as a factor
in the shooting, as Jimenez, a schizophrenia sufferer who hadn’t been taking his medication,
told the media he’d heard voices in his head telling him his loved ones would be killed if he
didn’t shoot the teens. He was charged with murder and a special circumstance of lying in wait that
made him eligible for the death penalty. Number 4 Ateeq Rafiq
English man Ateeq Rafiq and his wife, Ayesha Sardar, went to Birmingham's Star City cinema,
on March the 9th of 2019. The 24-year-old bought seats in Gold Class for screen 17 and,
at some point during the movie, couldn’t find his keys and phone. He knelt down and
began searching for them with the seat’s motorized footrest in a raised position.
Rafiq went under the seat and the footrest then automatically started lowering on his neck.
An engineering expert later performed tests on the chair and determined that the father-of-one’s neck
had been compressed with roughly three-quarters of a ton of pressure. Sardar tried to stop the
footrest but couldn’t identify the buttons to operate it. 10 to 15 minutes had passed before
the moviegoer was released, at which point he’d turned blue and was in critical condition. Rafiq
died at Heartlands Hospital, on March the 16th, after suffering a catastrophic lack of oxygen
to his brain. An inquest was carried out and the cinema was fined over $1 million, in 2021,
after admitting to have failed in assessing the risks associated with the motorized chair.
A judge described it as "an accident that never should have happened" and the court was told
that the reclining chair had been missing a bar that would’ve allowed Rafiq to be freed manually.
Number 3 Keri Karman
In 2018, a woman and her father were charged with endangering the welfare of a child
following an incident in which the former had dumped her popcorn on a stranger’s toddler.
25-year-old Keri Karman and her father Charles, aged 61, were watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi
at a theater in Long Island, New York, on January the 2nd. Sitting next to Karman were Celia Riggs
and her 2-year-old daughter Harley. At one point during the PG-13 movie, Harley asked
her mother for some popcorn. As later reported by Riggs, her child had barely uttered the word when
Karman clamped her hand around Harley’s mouth and then dumped her $8.99 popcorn container on the
child’s head. Karman’s aggressive outburst also reportedly involved her cursing at 28-year-old
Riggs. The mother ran out with her child, after she’d started crying, while Karman and her father
left in the meantime. Riggs then took to social media to share the incident and ask
for help towards identifying those involved. The police were able to track them down through
surveillance footage and ticket receipts. In March, Karman was taken into custody and charged,
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Number 2 Shooting in Lafayette 59-year-old John Russell Houser went
to a screening of Trainwreck, at the Grand 16 movie theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana, on the
evening of July the 23rd of 2015. Surveillance footage would show him calmly buying a ticket,
10 minutes late into the movie. Houser briefly sat in the second-to-last row before he got up and
brandished a Hi-Point Model JCP .40 caliber pistol. He started shooting indiscriminately,
with his first victims being the people who’d been sitting directly in front of him. Houser
continued firing his weapon as he walked down the stairs, ultimately letting off at least 13 shots
and reloading once. He exited the theater through a side door and tried heading for his vehicle by
blending with survivors. By then the police had already made their way to the scene after
receiving frantic calls, which were later made public, from people trapped inside the building.
Houser noticed the presence of law enforcement and returned to building, where he fired three
more shots at the fleeing moviegoers. He then took his life by discharging the pistol into his mouth.
21-year-old Mayci Breaux and Jillian Johnson, aged 33, sustained fatal gunshot wounds as a result
Houser’s rampage while nine others were injured, either by gunfire or through accidents sustained
while trying to escape the theater. Investigators later searched the Motel 6 where the Georgia-born
shooter had been staying and found disguises suggesting that he’d planned to flee in the
shooting’s aftermath. A definitive motive wasn’t established but it was found that Houser had a
history of mental illness and held controversial opinions on race, gender and government,
expressed during his online activity. Number 1 Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
On July the 20th of 2012, several hundred people gathered in Theater 6 of the Cinema 16 multiplex,
in Aurora, Colorado, for a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Roughly 20 minutes into
the Batman movie, James Eagan Holmes exited the theater through an emergency door. At 12:30 am,
he returned to Theater 6 heavily armed and armored. He was equipped with a load-bearing vest,
a ballistic helmet and a gas mask in addition to a bulletproof throat guard, a groin protector and
bulletproof leggings. Moviegoers initially thought he was part of a prank, a publicity stunt for the
movie’s premiere or that he was simply in costume, as many of those in attendance were at the time.
24-year-old Holmes, who was reportedly listening to techno music in his headphones to drown out
what was to come, then threw a gas canister obstructing the moviegoers’ vision while also
irritating their throats, skin and eyes. He then fired a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, first into
the ceiling and then into the crowd. Holmes also shot an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle,
with a 100-round drum magazine, but it eventually jammed prompting him to switch to a .40 caliber
Glock 22 pistol. As the shooting unfolded, Holmes concentrated his fire to the back of
the room and then to those in the aisles. Three people in the adjacent Theater 8,
which was showing the same movie, were also hit when a bullet pierced through the wall. Through
his combined use of the three weapons, Holmes had fired 76 shots causing 58 people to sustain
bullet-related injuries. 12 of them ultimately passed away, including four men in their 20s
who died at the scene, reportedly while protecting their girlfriends from the gunfire.
In the aftermath, one victim became a paraplegic and another suffered extensive brain damage,
from a shotgun blast to the head, and was left unable to speak or move properly. Law enforcement
rushed to the scene and arrived less than two minutes after the first calls had been placed.
Holmes was apprehended, without incident, next to his car, behind the cinema. Experts identified
Holmes’ mental illness, schizoaffective disorder, as a significant factor behind the massacre but he
was deemed to have been legally sane at the time of the shooting. Prosecutors sought the death
penalty but the jury, who found Holmes guilty on multiple counts of murder and attempted murder,
couldn’t unanimously agree on it. The mass murderer was sentenced to 12 consecutive
life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole. Thanks for watching! For the rest of your life,
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