At 1:15 p.m. on August 5, 2015, 29-year old Vincente David Montano entered the Carmike Hickory 8 movie theater just outside the east wing of the mall carrying two backpacks and armed with a hatchet and a pellet gun [REF].
Just 13 days prior, three people had been killed in the Grand 16 movie theater attack in Lafayette, Louisiana.