The backfiring of a car led to the scare late Sunday night at the complex.
The sound of a car backfiring near a South Florida movie theater led police to evacuate moviegoers following multiple reports of an active shooter, authorties said.
The incident happened Sunday night at the Cinemark movie theater in Davie.
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Davie police later told news outlets that a passing vehicle's engine likely backfired, prompting the scare.
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“The movie cut out, the alarms went off, the intercoms said, ’Hey, everyone please leave the movie theatres,” Jonathan Fernandez told local media. “And then I followed everyone out of the movie theaters. Everyone was in a little bit of a panic.”
Police officers went theater-to-theater inside the complex and found no signs of a shooter, officials said.
