In a press release shared Sunday, the Charlotte venue The Comedy Zone said that each of Robinson's reveals for Sunday had been canceled and attendees to Saturday evening's present would obtain refunds.
Comic Craig Robinson says he’s protected after evacuating from a North Carolina comedy membership Saturday after a suspect with a firearm entered the constructing.
The Killing It and Workplace star was scheduled to carry out on the venue when a person entered the constructing round 9 p.m. and brandished a gun, in line with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Division. These contained in the venue have been evacuated, after which the suspect discharged his weapon.
Authorities say the suspect was detained and that nobody was injured. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to the police division for additional remark.
In a message posted to Instagram on Sunday afternoon, Robinson provided his because of the venue and native authorities for his or her motion. “Thanks to The Comedy Zone safety and employees for getting us to security rapidly. Thanks everybody on your outpouring of help and effectively needs. Thanks CMPD for swift motion and for apprehending the shooter. Hopefully he will get the assistance he wants.”
“Thanks be to God nobody was damage,” he ended his message. “Please keep protected everybody.”
In a press release to THR, The Comedy Zone additionally thanked its employees, who “instantly jumped into motion and acquired everybody safely out of the constructing,” as effectively the CMPD for “their swift response and peaceable decision to the state of affairs.” The venue additionally confirmed that it was canceling each of Robinson’s deliberate reveals for Sunday evening, and refunding these with tickets to Saturday evening’s 9:45 p.m. set.
“The Comedy Zone goes to take a brief breather, due to this fact tonight’s present has been canceled,” the assertion mentioned. “We look ahead to laughing with you later this week.”
Within the video he shared to Instagram Saturday evening and brought from the viewers of a Large Time Rush live performance taking place at a close-by venue, Robinson confirmed that he was “protected.”
“It was an lively shooter within the comedy membership, so that they moved us over to this as a live performance [was] going and it’s Large Time Rush,” he defined. “We needed to run over right here.”
“It’s cool. We cool. It was simply wild. I used to be in a inexperienced room they usually [were] like, ‘All people get out,'” he mentioned later within the video. “It was a second for certain.”