An 18-Year-Old Is Arrested for a Theater Shooting
An 18-year-old Renton man was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder, accused of firing a sawed-off shotgun into the chest of a Bellevue teen in the parking lot of the AMC Factoria 8 movie theater on July 7, King County prosecutors said.
Carlos Anthony Espinoza was arrested at his home, where police found a hacksaw and the shotgun’s sawed-off barrel in his bedroom along with shotgun shells that matched shells found in his car and at the shooting scene, charging papers said.
Police recovered a 12-gauge shotgun on the back seat of his vehicle, a silver Lexus with distinct body damage, according to the charges, the Seattle Times reported.
Espinoza was also charged with unlawful possession of a short-barreled shotgun. He remains jailed in lieu of $2 million bail, jail records show.
