Confrontation causes ‘hysteria’ at Arizona theater

Published July 24, 2012 3:19am ET



SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a confrontation with an intoxicated man at a southern Arizona theater caused moviegoers to flee a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” the same day a gunman killed 12 people at a Colorado cinema.

Cochise County sheriff’s officials say 27-year-old Michael William Borboa entered a Cinemark theater in Sierra Vista on Friday carrying a backpack. Witnesses say he appeared to be drunk and was acting strangely during a showing of the same movie that was on screen when the Colorado shooting occurred.

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