Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Deadly Shooting Inside Corona Movie Theater
Police are asking for the public's help in finding the shooter(s).
LATEST UPDATE: An arrest has been made in the case. Click here to read the article.
CORONA, CA — The investigation continues into the late-night shooting inside the Crossings movie theater in Corona that left an 18-year-old woman dead and a 19-year-old man critically wounded, police said in a Tuesday update.
"Detectives are conducting follow-up on all investigative leads with hopes of identifying the person(s) responsible for this heinous crime," the Corona Police Department said in its second update of the day.
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Police responded to the Regal Edwards Corona Crossings movie plex at 2650 Tucscany Street at around 11:45 p.m. Monday. Inside a theater, they found Corona residents Rylee Goodrich and Anthony Barajas wounded by gunfire. Goodrich was pronounced dead at the scene and Barajas was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. He remained on life support Tuesday evening, according to the update.
Evidence was collected at the crime scene, but a gun was not found, police confirmed.
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Both victims were watching a 9:35 p.m. showing of "The Forever Purge." They attended the movie together, police said.
The "Purge" horror series is based on a plot in which, just once a year, the government allows all crime. The latest sequel involves a story in which "the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end," according to ads for "The Forever Purge."
The Crossings theater was closed Tuesday morning, but the Regal Edwards website showed movie times later in the day. Corona police issued a plea Tuesday morning asking the public to please avoid the theater due to the ongoing investigation.
The Corona Police Department is the lead investigating agency into the shootings, while the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Bureau - Forensic Services is assisting.
The Corona Police Department is asking for help from anyone who was inside the theater, in another movie theater, or in the Crossings shopping center between 9 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. Anyone with information is asked to call the department's anonymous TIP Line at 951-817-5839 or Senior Detective Slaven Neagu at 951-739-4916 or email him at Slaven.Neagu@CoronaCA.gov.
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