Theater staff attempted to help resolve the dispute, but it escalated with a hurled bucket of popcorn, shoving and gunfire, police said.
An argument over seating at an Albuquerque movie theater escalated into a shooting that left a man dead and sent frightened filmgoers scrambling to flee, police said Monday.
Detectives with the Albuquerque Police Department filed charges Monday in Metropolitan Court against 19-year-old Enrique Padilla in connection with the Sunday evening shooting.
The shooting happened just after 9 p.m. at the Century Rio theater next to an interstate, CBS affiliate KRQE-TV reported. Officers responded to the theater where “No Hard Feelings” was playing, the station reported, citing the arrest warrant.
Padilla was at a hospital under guard Monday evening while being treated for a gunshot wound, police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said. It was unclear whether Padilla had a legal representative who could speak on his behalf.
