COCONUT GROVE, FLA. (WSVN) – A night at the movies turned into an attack on a woman after a theater patron became violent after he appeared to be set off by her laughter. <\/p>\n
The 24-year-old woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, tells 7News the incident landed her at the hospital with a fractured finger, bruised cheek, and an eye injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, he got angry,\u201d said the woman.<\/p>\n
Video captured inside Cin\u00e9polis Luxury Cinemas Coconut Grove showed a group of friends seeing a movie late Sunday night. The victim said they all laughed at a scene in the movie. <\/p>\n
\u201cSomething happened in the movie and we are laughing like, ha ha ha\u2026 and he say, \u2018shut the [expletive] up [expletive].\u2019 and I said, \u2018You can say, be quiet, not shut the [expletive] up [expletive],’\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n
She said the man sitting in front did not like their laughter, and started heading their way.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he walked to me saying, \u2018I want to throw away all of your food\u2019 and I said \u2018Do it.\u2019 and he did it, but I never thought he was going to get the tray and hit me on my face and break my finger.\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Video then shows the man slapping the woman in the face with a pizza pan and then throws pizza slices on a plate toward the air. <\/p>\n
The victim is seen covering her face as her friends wondered what upset the man. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d said a person in the video.<\/p>\n
After this, the woman said the man casually returned to his row to continue to watch the movie.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hit me and then went to his seat, and sat like nothing, then he said, \u2018Cheers,’\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n
Her friend snapped a picture of him lifting his plastic cup, before they called for security and police.<\/p>\n
As a guard took the man out of the theater, the group followed them, hoping the guard would hold him there until police arrived.<\/p>\n
But the victim said the man was let go prior to police\u2019s arrival. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was crying and my friends were mad because they let him go,’\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n
By the time officers got there, the man was long gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t have the video, they believe him, not me.\u201d said the woman.<\/p>\n
She said she\u2019s thankful her friend thought to record a video of the attack, which has now been turned over to police.<\/p>\n
According to the Miami Police Department Assault Unit, the case is now under investigation. <\/p>\n
7News has reached out to the cinema for a statement, but have not gotten a response.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n
\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COCONUT GROVE, FLA. (WSVN) – A night at the movies turned into an attack on a woman after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-347884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}