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No arrest yet in movie theater shooting
Saturday, January 17 ( updated 10:35 pm)
By Jason Hardin - Staff Writer

GREENSBORO — The shooter who opened fire on a fellow moviegoer in a packed theater lobby remained at large Saturday, while the theater planned to resume showings of the rapper biopic “Notorious” Sunday.

Hundreds of people flooded out of the Grand 18 cinema next to Four Seasons Town Centre after gunfire broke out just after 9 p.m. Friday.

Clive O’Connor , 32, was shot twice in the abdomen after arguing with someone in the theater, police said. His medical condition was not available Saturday. Greensboro police said they had no suspects in the case.

Police and theater officials said it wasn’t clear whether the people involved were planning to see the film, which opened Friday. The Grand 18 Four Seasons Station had three showings of “Notorious” scheduled for 9:30 p.m., although other films were showing around that time as well.

The theater reopened Saturday, but did not screen “Notorious,” which depicts the life of rapper Notorious B.I.G. who died in 1997 in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.

“We just wanted to assess the situation. We thought that was the most prudent approach to take,” said Lisa Burwell , a spokeswoman for Southern Theaters, which owns the Grand 18.

Southern Theaters did not stop showing the film at other cinemas in the chain, and the film was shown Saturday at other locations in Greensboro.

The decision to stop showing “Notorious” upset some moviegoers, who questioned the assumptions behind the decision.

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“I think it’s stereotyping,” she said. “I think it’s because it’s a black movie. If it was another kind of movie, they wouldn’t have canceled it.”

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[Rappini]

Thanks for the info and you were absolutely correct.