TikTok star wounded, 18-year-old woman shot dead while watching

"Purge" at Southern California movie theater

Authorities are appealing for help as they investigate a shooting that killed an 18-year-old
woman and seriously wounded a 19-year-old social media influencer as they watched "The
Forever Purge" at a Southern California movie theater. Rylee Goodrich was dead, and
Anthony Barajas was on life support, police said.

Anthony Barajas, known online as itsanthonymichael, has nearly a million followers on

TikTok, and more on other platforms. Anthony Barajas/Instagram
The teens from Corona were found by theater workers cleaning up after the 9:35 p.m.
showing of the violent horror movie at The Crossings mall in Corona, southeast of Los
Angeles, Officer Tobias Kouroubacalis told CBS Los Angeles.

"At some point, the employee or employees walk inside the theater to conduct their clean-
up or walk through and that's when the 911 call was placed," Corona Police Department
Cpl. Tobias Kouroubacalis said. "[They said] that there was an unknown problem,
somebody was bleeding, there wasn't very specific information given."

Barajas, known online as itsanthonymichael, has nearly a million followers on TikTok, and
more on other platforms.
Detectives recovered evidence from the theater, but no gun, police said. Police didn't
provide a possible motive or other details. Detectives were still trying to identify a possible
shooter or shooters, police said.

"During the actual movie time, no one apparently heard the gunshot," Kailyn Dillon, an
employee who was not working at the time, told CBS Los Angeles Tuesday. "I know that we
do have security bag checks that we do on the daily and, unfortunately, I'm not sure if it just
was missed or if it was in a holster on their belt."

Authorities said the two attended the movie together. However, it was not immediately clear
who else was in the theater with them, though records show a total of six tickets were
purchased for that showing.

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"We don't have any suspect information right now," Kouroubacalis said. "We have no
information to lead us to believe there is an active threat to our community or any
surrounding community right now."

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Goodrich's family cover her funeral costs.

"You don't expect to like get home from work and then finding out that your cousin was shot
in the back of the head," Ashley Cole, Goodrich's cousin, said. "When there's only six
people in a movie theater, to me, that's not what I imagine someone that's not going with
intentions to kill someone to do."

Rylee Goodrich GoFundMe