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Suspect held in shooting at movie theater

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From Associated Press

The fatal shooting at a Pennsylvania theater where the 50 Cent movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ” was playing stemmed from an old prison beef, police said Tuesday after they made an arrest in the case.

Larue Graves of Aliquippa, Pa., was arrested at a motel Tuesday and charged in the Nov. 9 shooting of Shelton Flowers. The two men, both 30, were in prison together, police said.

Flowers was shot at least three times after he got into an argument inside a multiplex. Police said Flowers had just watched 50 Cent’s movie and got into a confrontation with three men in the bathroom. A fight ensued and spilled out into the concessions area, where Flowers was shot.

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The theater pulled the movie after the shooting, pending the police investigation, to find out whether the violence had somehow been sparked by the film’s content.

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