Moviegoers were left frightened Saturday night after police responded with guns drawn to the AMC Saratoga 14 theater in San Jose.<\/p>\n
San Jose police said they responded to a report of someone with a gun in theater No. 13. Some moviegoers said the film stopped halfway, the lights went on and police stormed in.<\/p>\n
“The lights turned on and then the volume lowered,” Lauren, a moviegoer, said. “The police stormed in. There were six cops. One of them was pointing a huge gun at the back of the room and they told the guy in the back right to stand up and put his hands above his head.”<\/p>\n
Lauren said the theater was nearly full.<\/p>\n
“We were really scared,” Lauren said.<\/p>\n
Police said they located a man in the theater matching the description of the man who reportedly had a gun. But he did not have a weapon, and officers did not find a gun.<\/p>\n
Moviegoer Aditya Gupta said he was stunned when police came in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girl who was sitting on my right, she ducked, and I realized after the fact that I should\u2019ve done the same,” he said. “I don’t think it registered to me that there was a real officer with a real assault rifle-looking thing.”<\/p>\n
He said officers briefly explained to moviegoers why they were there.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of them was explaining to everybody, ‘Sorry for the disturbance. It’s just that we were told that someone was waving a weapon around,’\u201d Gupta said.<\/p>\n
Fearing a possible shootout, Gupta said he took off. Lauren said she and her friend left, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so scary,” Lauren said. “It was scary to see a gun that big right in front of me.”<\/p>\n
No one was hurt. Lauren said the incident was so frightening that she plans to take a break from going to the movies.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area reached out to AMC for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moviegoers were left frightened Saturday night after police responded with guns drawn to the AMC Saratoga 14 theater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-485958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}