
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 11, 1991                   TAG: 9103110332
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

VIOLENCE AT THEATERS SHOWING FILM REPORTED

A shootout outside a theater showing the film "New Jack City" left one young man dead, and police reported violent incidents at other theaters showing the movie over the weekend.

In cities from New York to Los Angeles, violence erupted at theaters where the film based on the real-life New York drug lord, Nickie Barnes, opened Friday.

The film's director and co-star, Mario Van Peebles, said the movie is not "a heavy gang movie" and should not be blamed. But police in Las Vegas said the movie attracted a violent audience.

"It's the type of movie that will draw the gangs to it," Las Vegas police Sgt. William Reed said.

In Brooklyn, an 18-year-old man was arrested Saturday for investigation in the death of Gabriel Williams, 19, who was killed by a single shot to the chest during a shootout outside the UA Duffield Theater in Brooklyn Heights.

- Associated Press

by CNB