By The Associated Press
Authorities are asking for help as they investigate
a shooting that left an 18-year-old girl dead and Tik Tok star
Anthony Barajas
seriously injured
while watching
The Forever Purge
at a Southern California movie theater.
Teenagers from Corona, California, were found by movie workers while cleaning the room after the 9:35 p.m. screening of the horror movie at The Crossings mall in southeast Los Angeles, Officer
Tobias Kouroubacalis said.
to the KTLA-TV station.
Rylee Goodrich died
and Anthony Barajas was found still alive, police said.
Barajas, 18, known online as
itsanthonymichael
, has nearly a million followers on TikTok and more on other platforms.
Detectives recovered evidence from the movie theater, but not a weapon
, authorities said.
Police did not provide a possible motive or other details and said they
were still trying to identify a possible shooter or shooters
.
One problem for the researchers was the
small audience
for the film's screening.
"I have been told that six tickets were bought for the screening of the film," Kouroubacalis told KABC-TV.
"
We are asking anyone who has been inside that movie, or in an adjacent theater, for any information,
" he added.
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