Unconfirmed reports it was a family reunion.
Via The Daily Mail
Hundreds of teenagers caused chaos in central Florida, brawling each other after they could not get into a movie theater.
Police in Ocoee,west of Orlando, said that 300 high school and middle school students ’caused a disturbance’ outside an AMC theater at the local mall on Saturday night.
After security guards kept most of them out, the crowd was moved to a parking lot where they began fighting each other and shots were fire into the air.
The resulting investigation led to the discovery of drugs and a stolen car, according to WESH.
The chaos spread from the mall to a nearby Taco Bell to a gas station where the students were stealing goods and trying to fight the store’s owner.
Around 100 teens were able to get inside the cinema.
Police eventually got the children under control, and they called their parents.[…]
No one was seriously hurt in the incident.
‘My anxiety hit the roof. I was like, ‘How do we get out?’’ moviegoer Jessica Weckerly told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
She was there with her husband, Brian, for a screening of ’50 Shades of Grey’ when she heard what she described something that sounded like ‘a herd of elephants.’
‘Just bum-rushed the entire theater,’ she said.
Lt. Paul Hopkins of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said officers quickly arrived on the scene.
‘At that point, since we’re dealing with 800 to 900 juveniles, they called for assistance from surrounding agencies,’ he said. ‘We all formed together and were successfully able to get all these kids out of the mall area.’
HT Kat