BREAKING: GREENVILLE POLICE MAKE ARREST IN AMC THEATER SHOOTING
A Tarboro woman has been arrested in connection to a Friday night shooting at the AMC movie theater in Greenville.
Shameeka Latrice Lynch, 30, turned herself into the Pitt County Detention Center this evening. She has been charged with one count of Discharging a Firearm in an Enclosure to Incite Fear and two counts of Assault with a Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill. She is currently in the Pitt County Detention... Center under a $250,000 bond.
Just before midnight on Friday, February 23, officers with the Greenville Police Department responded to 1685 E. Fire Tower Road for the report of shots fired. Witnesses reported there was an altercation between several people over assigned seating inside a movie theater. At some point during that altercation shots were fired. The movie theater was evacuated as a precaution.
Fortunately, no one was injured.
The case remains under investigation and additional arrests are likely.