Los Angeles:
TikTok star Anthony Barajas has died just after becoming shot at a California film theater in what authorities described as a “random and unprovoked” attack.
Barajas, 19, died Saturday just after the shooting that also killed his 18-year-old pal Rylee Goodrich, mentioned police in Corona in southern California mentioned.
The victims have been shot Monday at a theater that was displaying “The Forever Purge,” about a totalitarian government that one evening a year makes it possible for any crime to be committed, like murder.
Theater employees discovered the two shot in the head just after the film, which was sparsely attended. Goodrich died at the scene and Barajas was rushed to a hospital.
“Based on the evidence provided to our office, this appears to be a random and unprovoked attack,” nearby prosecutors mentioned in a statement Friday.
Joseph Jimenez, 20, has been charged in the shooting. Police acting on recommendations from witnesses arrested him at his home the day just after the assault.
Police have mentioned he apparently acted alone and did not know the victims.
Barajas had practically 930,000 followers on TikTok and was a reportedly a standout soccer player in higher college.
The United States has a extended and painful history of deadly gun violence, in the type of a steady every day toll of shootings as nicely as higher-profile mass killings that have targeted schools, workplaces and buying centers.
In 2012, a heavily armed man killed 12 people today in a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, throughout the screening of the film “The Dark Knight Rises”.
()