Short Takes : Wounded Movie-Goer Sues
Lawyers for a Queens high school basketball star who lost an eye in a Christmas Day shooting at a Long Island movie theater showing “The Godfather Part III” filed a $100-million lawsuit today against the theater and its security company.
The shooting killed one and injured two others. Three suspects have been arrested.
Alan Schnurman, attorney for Turane Haines, 17, said he filed the suit, which seeks $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages, in state Supreme Court in Queens.
The suit names National Amusements Inc., of Dedham, Mass., which owns and operates the Sunrise Multiplex Cinemas in Valley Stream, where the shootings occurred, and Aero Investigations & Security Services Inc., of Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., the theater’s security firm.
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