Via Fox News:

A gunman in a mask stormed a movie theater in western Germany Friday and opened fire wounding several people, local media reported.

The unidentified shooter reportedly barricaded himself inside. Police surrounded the theater, BBC News reported.

Investigators would not immediately confirm the number of wounded, but described it as a “threat situation.”

The Kinopolis movie theater is located in Viernheim, approximately 40 miles south of Frankfurt.

Police in the nearby city of Mannheim sent officers to support the operation, spokesman Norbert Schaetzle told reporters.

Via Haaretz

A masked man with a gun and ammunition belt opened fire in a cinema complex in the small western German town of Viernheim, near Frankfurt, injuring between 20 and 50 people and barricaded himself inside, German media reported on Thursday

Bild daily and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that elite police were on their way to the scene.The Darmstaedter Echo said 20 to 50 people had been injured.

The shooter has barricaded himself in, the FAZ newspaper reported. Another report by the German online magazine Focux said police have apprehended him.

Update:

Police are now updating reports noting the 25 injured were injured by tear gas, not by bullets despite earlier reports.

*Suspect was earlier identified by local German newspaper incorrectly. Name has not yet been released by police.