A 19-year-old TikTok star and his good friend had been gunned down in a California movie show on Monday, in a weird and bloody episode that police nonetheless have little clarification for.

The incident occurred throughout a displaying of The Forever Purge, the newest installment of the grisly horror film franchise, at a Regal Cinemas in Corona—a suburb southeast of Los Angeles.

Anthony Barajas, who has greater than 900,000 followers on TikTok, is now in crucial situation, and his good friend, 18-year-old Rylee Goodrich, died from her accidents on the scene.

The carnage, which police are calling an “unprovoked attack,” weirdly went unnoticed by movie show employees, who said that they “hadn’t heard any gunshots” and solely stumbled upon the pair after they got here in to scrub the theater after the film had ended.

Corona police stated on Wednesday that they had arrested native 20-year-old Joseph Jimenez, and believed that he was chargeable for the assault. A search warrant executed at Jimenez’s residence yielded a firearm whose caliber matched the weapon used within the homicide, in addition to “additional evidence related to the crime scene,” police stated. Jimenez was subsequently charged with homicide, tried homicide, and theft, and booked at a neighborhood detention heart on $2 million bail.

However, authorities are nonetheless unclear on why precisely the capturing occurred.

“Based on statements obtained, there is no known motive and it appears to be an unprovoked attack,” police stated.

At a press conference on Wednesday morning, Corona Police Cpl. Tobias Kouroubacalis confirmed that Jimenez had “acted alone” within the assault, however added: “There’s no information the suspect and victims had any prior contact before these crimes took place.” He additionally stated he wasn’t conscious of Jimenez having any historical past of violent crime or any legal file, in any respect.

Adding to the confusion, Kouroubacalis stated that the theft element of the episode seems to have been one thing that simply “happened” and wasn’t the first motivation: “There is no motive for this crime, at this point,” he stated. “Robbery is part of what happened during that crime.”

A neighborhood reporter summed the confusion up properly:

REPORTER: It feels like these two victims simply went there to the film that evening, minding their very own enterprise, and this suspect walked up, for an unknown motive, and shot them fully randomly.

KOUROUBACALIS: That is the knowledge we’ve got proper now—it was fully unprovoked and the victims had been shot with none sort of prior contact.

So, suffice it to say, particulars are scant. It’s additionally not totally clear how the capturing would’ve occurred with out different moviegoers noticing—since a minimum of 4 different individuals are said to have been current through the screening.

“During the actual movie time, no one apparently heard the gunshot,” employee Kailyn Dillon told CBS. “I know that we do have security bag checks that we do on the daily and, unfortunately, I’m not sure if just was missed or if it was in a holster on their belt.”

Police have stated that Jimenez was “in possession” of a ticket however that it’s unclear how he bought it—and police couldn’t touch upon whether or not he’d bought it. Security cameras contained in the movie show additionally apparently weren’t working on the time of the assault, Kouroubacalis stated.