Man assaulted in movie theater
Viewing "Lord of the Rings" gets violent with man beaten for asking people to keep the noise down.
WFLS News
Date published: 1/6/2004
Apparently some people in Prince William County need to be schooled in the ways of "movie theater ettiquette."
A 39-year-old Triangle man was with his family at a Saturday afternoon screening of "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" at the AMC Theater when the people behind him were making a lot of noise. Police Sergeant Kim Chinn says the man asked the people to keep the noise down.
A while later the group became noisy again and the man turned around and asked them to keep the noise down.
Chinn says one of the people slapped the soda from the man's hand and put him in a head lock and began beating him.
The man suffered injuries to his eye, lip and fingers.
Chinn says they're looking for the suspect who ran from the theater in Potomac Mills Mall.