Police say they are looking for two people involved in an altercation at a movie theater in Van Nuys on Tuesday evening.
Video shows a man and woman in an altercation with employees at the Regency Theatres on Van Nuys Boulevard just after 7:30 p.m. The surveillance video has no audio and NBC Los Angeles hasn’t been able to independently confirm what happened beforehand.
Ruby Arcos Delacruz, the worker who was in that altercation, said it started when she refused a woman entry because she purportedly had outside drinks in her bag.
“All I did was just enforce policy like the company wanted and in return I get a beating,” she said.
She says her manager tried to intervene, but the altercation continued.
“I was telling them to leave, they need to get out, like they can’t be in here anymore,” employee Josh Bedolla said. “And then, literally, she started hitting me in the face twice, knocked my glasses off. He started grabbing me, and then she took the opportunity to walk around him, stomp on my glasses, and then go back for my co-worker, and then it just became a tussle from there, unfortunately.”
The Los Angeles Police Department said it appeared the two suspects left before officers arrived. No one was in custody as of 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Both suspects are facing potential felony battery charges, police said.
In a statement to NBCLA, Lyndon Golin, president of Regency Theatres, said, “We are obviously very troubled by the unfortunate incident that took place last night at the Van Nuys Plant 16, as the safety of our team and guests is of utmost importance.”
