Gainesville Police is looking for a man accused of shooting at a group of people outside a Butler Plaza movie theater early Monday morning.
No one was hurt during the shooting.
The incident started after Zairon Jarquis Fussell, Robert Nathaniel Morris and Morris’ friend walked into a late-night showing of “Texas Chainsaw 3D” at the Regal Gainesville Cinema Stadium 14 movie theater, located on the 3100 block of Southwest 35th Boulevard, according to a GPD arrest report.
Micca Gamble, a 19-year-old College of Central Florida student, said she was sitting with a group of friends in the theater when Fussell, 19, started accusing someone in the group of tripping him while he walked in the aisle.
Gamble said she and her friends denied tripping Fussell, but he kept accusing them before the movie started.
During the movie, Fussell told Morris to get a gun from Morris’ house, according to the report.
Morris left the theater and returned with a gun.
Gable said Morris was gone for about 10 minutes before returning to the theater.
After the movie ended, Fussell and Morris continued the argument outside in the parking lot with Gamble and her friends, Gamble said.
“We told him, ‘You’re not going to do nothing, so just drop it,’” she said.
Fussell pulled out the handgun and fired a single shot at the group.
Gamble and her friends took cover behind cars in the parking lot. Amber Richardson, one of Gamble’s friends, called police.
“It was like, ‘What the hell just happened?,” Gamble said.
Fussell fled from the parking lot while Morris and his friend drove away, according to the report.
Later that night, Morris returned to the parking lot, looking for Fussell.
A GPD officer at the scene pulled him over during a traffic stop, according to the report.
Gamble and her friends identified Morris as one of the men involved in the shooting.
Police arrested Morris and charged him with four counts of attempted murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder, according to the release.
During questioning with detectives, Morris and his friend identified Fussell by his driver’s license photograph.
The friend told police he knew Fussell had a bad temper and had been known to snap, according to the report.
Morris told officers he left the theater to retrieve the gun for Fussell.
Police later booked Morris into the Alachua County Jail at about 9 a.m. Monday.
As of Tuesday night, he was still in custody with an $825,000 bond.
Police are still looking for Fussell, who also goes by “Z Man.”
He is a 6-foot 1-inch black man with a medium build and multiple tattoos.
Police said he is considered armed and dangerous, according to the release.
Contact GPD Detective F. Lormil at 352-393-7616 with any information, or text an anonymous tip to Gainesville Police at 274637. Text “GPD” plus your tip.
Contact Kathryn Varn at kvarn@alligator.org.
