44-year-old David Martin Escamillo was drunk, and he was angry. He had just gotten into an altercation with another moviegoer. He stood up in the aisle and shouted “This Is It”, triggering a stampede of the audience out the door of the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises”. Wary after last week’s movie theater shooting, patrons didn’t wait to see what the commotion was about before fleeing. Officers who arrived after receiving reports of shots fired found Escamillo being held by three patrons and screaming that he hadn’t shot anyone. Officers also ” found several sandals that were left behind by moviegoers who fled the scene.”
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Escamillo faces disorderly conduct and affray charges and is being held on $8000 bail. We looked up the definition of affray by the way, so you don’t have to: “a fight between two or more people in a public place that disturbs the peace.”
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