TORONTO — Thursday night’s mass shooting in a Lafayette, La. movie theatre sparked plenty of anger and sadness on social media.
A gunman opened fire about 20 minutes into a screening of Trainwreck, a romantic comedy starring Amy Schumer and Bill Hader. Two people were fatally shot and several others were wounded before the shooter took his life.
Schumer was among those reacting on Twitter.
Director and actor Kevin Smith tweeted the “terrible news” that “2 people died because they wanted to see a movie.”
Former CNN host Piers Morgan described the incident as “another chance for America to do absolutely nothing to stop more mass shootings.”
Comedian Patton Oswalt, at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival when the shooting took place, tweeted a message aimed at the media.
It was Oswalt’s first tweet since the end of May, when he told followers he was taking a break from tweeting until September. “Don’t kill each other,” he wrote on May 31.
Here is a look at some of the reaction to the Lafayette shootings from celebrities:
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