Paul Kieu-AP A Lafayette Police Department vehicle blocks an entrance at The Grand Theatre in Lafayette, La., following a shooting at the theater, Thursday, July 23, 2015.
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Two people, including the gunman, are now dead, while eight people were left injured, a new report claims.
Louisiana State Police tell CBS News there are “a number of injuries” but the extent is unknown.
Eyewitnesses at the Grand Theatre in the city of Lafayette said the he began shooting indiscriminately at the audience, during an evening screening of the comedy Train Wreck.
Theater-goer Keifer Sanders was in the adjacent room during the shooting.
Ms Domingue told the newspaper she heard about six shots before she and her fiance ran to the nearest exit, leaving behind her shoes and handbag. “The shooting was in the movie ‘Trainwreck, ‘” he said. Authorities are taking the precaution of checking the theater for explosive devices, Craft said. She saw “an older white man” stand up and open fire.
The gunman is also dead, with police confirming the 58-year-old “lone white male” had killed himself after the incident in Lafayette at the Grande Theater.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke from just outside a Lafayette movie theater after a deadly shooting took place there Thursday, saying he was “horrified and shocked”. Domingue said the gunman did not say a word and that she “didn’t hear anybody screaming either”.
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“Please say a prayer for the victims and their families”, he wrote.
