UPDATE.........SHOOTER IS AN EX- COP

Man shot and killed for texting at Florida movie: sheriff

WFLA-TV

Police stand outside a Wesley Chapel, Fla., movie theater where a fatal shooting occurred Monday.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

A filmgoer irked that other audience members were texting at a Mark Wahlberg war movie opened fire in a Florida theater Monday, killing a man and wounding a woman, authorities said.
The Grove 16 Theatre in Wesley Chapel, north of Tampa, was evacuated after the shooting about 1:20 p.m. ET.
A male suspect was in custody thanks to the quick thinking of a good Samaritan who detained the man until authorities arrived, said Doug Tobin, a spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.

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The victims were airlifted to a Tampa hospital, where the man was pronounced dead and the woman was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Tobin said.

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