Charges Filed For Block E Murder

Derick Dasean Holliday is charged with the first degree murder of Alan D. Reitter, according to KSTP News web site.

Derick Dasean Holliday, 21, was charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of assault after police say he fired a bullet randomly into a crowd near the Target Center late Friday night. The bullet struck Alan D. Reitter, 31, of Minnetonka in the head. Police found him lying in a pool of his own blood. He died a short time later at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Holliday told police that he'd just gone to see the movie 'ATL' armed with a .44 Magnum.

The intrepid JB Doubtless of Fraters Libertas comments on and provides a very interesting part of an email regarding the movie suspect Holliday attended prior to the murder: "It's A Culture Thing...You Wouldn't Understand".

Rambix commenter The Watcher provides this information (from the Chicago Tribune?), describing a similar event in Chicago:

Killer of teen shot outside theater hunted

Tribune staff report
Published April 3, 2006, 8:27 AM CDT

Chicago police are searching for the gunman who fatally shot a 17-year-old during a brawl outside a movie theater at the Ford City Shopping Center on the Southwest Side over the weekend.

Willie Williams Jr., a junior from Chicago's Robeson High School, died of a gunshot wound to his head early Saturday. He died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn about 17 hours after he was shot.

Police said the shooting occurred during a large fight outside a theater where Williams had gone with friends to watch the movie "ATL." Officers said it was one of two brawls at Ford City during a 24-hour period.

The Watcher 04.03.06 - 11:17 am

Sound familiar? Draw your own conclusions, folks.

And below is a copy of suspect Holliday's criminal complaint, courtesy of KSTP News web site, as with the photo above [Click on the image for enlargement - if it's still too hard to read, you can go to the link above]: