WTSPSheriff's officers respond to Cobb Theaters' Grove 16 & CineBistro in Wesley Chapel, Fla.
Two people were shot when a gunman opened fire in a west Florida movie theater Monday, authorities said.
The shooting occurred at Cobb Theaters' Grove 16 & CineBistro in Wesley Chapel, some 25 minutes north of Tampa, local WTSP-TV reported.
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Few details were available, but the suspected shooter was arrested and in police custody, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
The shooting occurred inside the theater.
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The victims, a man and a woman, were airlifted to a Tampa area hospital, the sheriff's office said.
Information on their conditions was not immediately available.
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Police were on the scene, and the theater was closed down and cordoned off by crime scene tape.
Several calls to the theater were met by a busy signal.
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