A person was arrested after he opened fireplace inside a comedy membership in Charlotte, North Carolina the place actor and comic Craig Robinson was performing, in line with NBC Information. The person, later recognized as 36-year-old Omar James McCombs, reportedly entered the membership and waved his gun whereas demanding everybody go away.
Witnesses mentioned that McCombs entered The Comedy Zone on the 900 block of NC Music Manufacturing facility Boulevard at round 9:10 p.m. and demanded everybody go away. Roughly 50 folks ran exterior earlier than McCombs discharged his weapon. Nobody was injured.
The Scorching Tub Time Machine actor was within the inexperienced room earlier than his efficiency when he was evacuated to the Metro Credit score Union Amphitheater subsequent door the place the band Huge Time Rush was enjoying. Robinson shared a video following the mayhem on Instagram.
“I’m acting at The Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina. There was an lively shooter within the comedy membership,” mentioned the comic.
“Once more, there’s an lively shooter on the membership I used to be at. Huge Time Rush to the rescue,” he joked. “I’m cool. I’m protected. It was simply wild. I used to be within the inexperienced room they usually had been like, ‘All people get out.’ It was wild. It was a second for certain.”
Robinson additionally shared an announcement thanking the safety and employees at The Comedy Zone.
“Thanks to the Comedy Zone safety and employees for getting us to security rapidly. Thanks everybody to your outpouring of help and nicely needs. Thanks CMPD for swift motion in apprehending the shooter,” he wrote. “Hopefully he will get the assistance he wants. Thanks be to God nobody was harm. Please keep protected everybody.”
McCombs was charged with 5 counts of assault by pointing a gun, one depend of speaking threats, one depend of discharging a firearm inside an enclosure to incite worry, one depend of discharging a firearm within the metropolis and one depend of possession of a firearm by a felon.
