This booking photograph released by the Corona, Calif., Police Department shows 20-year-old Joseph Jimenez, who was arrested Tuesday, July 27, 2021, successful transportation with a shooting that killed an 18-year-old pistillate and earnestly wounded a 19-year-old societal media influencer arsenic they watched The Forever Purge astatine a Southern California movie theater. He is being held connected $2 cardinal bail. (Corona Police Department via AP)

CORONA, Calif. – A young TikTok prima who had been connected beingness enactment aft helium and a person were changeable wrong a Southern California movie theatre has died, constabulary and his household said Saturday.

Anthony Barajas, 19, was watching “The Forever Purge” astatine a theatre successful Corona with Rylee Goodrich, 18, connected Monday erstwhile they were each changeable successful the head. They were recovered by an worker aft the past showing of the night.

Goodrich died astatine the scene. Barajas was taken to a adjacent hospital, wherever helium was placed connected beingness support.

Barajas, known online arsenic itsanthonymichael, had astir a cardinal followers connected TikTok and much connected different platforms.

The fishy acted alone, and there’s nary denotation helium knew the victims oregon that Barajas’ relation arsenic a TikTok influencer played a relation successful the crime, Corona constabulary Cpl. Tobias Kouroubacalis told reporters past week.

“It was wholly unprovoked, and the victims were changeable without immoderate benignant of anterior contact,” Kouroubacalis said during a quality league Wednesday.

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Police were moving with Riverside County prosecutors to adhd a 2nd execution number against the suspected shooter, Joseph Jimenez.

Jimenez, 20, appeared successful Riverside County Superior Court connected Friday aft being charged with execution successful the decease of Goodrich and attempted execution of Barajas. But helium didn’t participate a plea, and his arraignment was postponed.

Prosecutors besides had charged Jimenez with a peculiar condition of lying successful hold that makes him eligible for the decease punishment if convicted arsenic charged.

Jimenez has been jailed since his arrest. It’s not wide whether helium has retained an lawyer who tin talk for him.

Barajas had been a precocious schoolhouse grant student, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported.

“From his speedy grin to his compassionate heart, Anthony’s beingness was a acquisition to each who knew him,” his household said successful a statement.

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