SEATTLE — King County prosecutors Tuesday charged a 29-year-old Newcastle man with third-degree assault, accusing him of criminal negligence for discharging a 9 mm handgun inside a Renton movie theater last week, injuring a woman seated in front of him.
Dane Gillian, who had a concealed-pistol license, was ordered by a judge to surrender his firearms and not to consume alcohol or nonprescribed drugs as conditions of his bail, charging papers say. He was booked into the King County Jail early Friday and was released less than 24 hours later after posting $25,000 bail, jail records show.
Gillian told Renton police the gun dropped and accidentally fired but prosecutors say he could not provide a reason for why he chambered a round in his handgun when he sat down. His 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun was not equipped with a safety, the charges say.
Gillian was allegedly intoxicated and ditched a gun magazine in the trash before leaving the theater after his weapon fired during a showing of “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” say the charges.
