Police arrested a man July 24 inside San Diego Comic-Con’s 6,000-person Hall H after he allegedly assaulted another man and cut him on or near his eyelid with a pen in a dispute over seating. Police said attendees subdued the attacker, who was arrested without further incident. The man was led out of the hall by police in handcuffs to boos from the crowd, according to an EW reporter on the scene. The victim was taken to the hospital, and the alleged attacker has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, according to a Wired.com report.
The attack occurred at the rear of Hall H around 5 p.m. PDT, between the panels for the movies Resident Evil: Afterlife and the sci-fi comedy Paul. The star-studded panel for Paul was delayed approximately 30 minutes while movie trailers were screened for the Hall H crowd. Later that evening, during the Hall H presentation for Universal’s Cowboys & Aliens, star Harrison Ford was led onto the stage in handcuffs by Comic-Con “guards.” The gag, which received a standing ovation from the audience, was only a coincidence — a studio rep told EW it was an orchestrated joke to play off how Ford, who’s never attended Comic-Con, had been “dragged” to the convention against his will. The joke had been in the works since Friday.
(Reporting by Jeff Jensen, Adam B. Vary, and John Young)
Yikes.
Cool story
Please tell the guy I’m sorry. I only wanted to cut him.
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Not if you keep stabbing people, “heh”.
As someone who has been in Hall H before, that is crazy to read. It must have taken hours to empty the whole place, let alone trying to get good seats again! What a jerk to do something so horrible over a seat.
They didn’t actually empty the hall.
Where’s Hit-Girl when you need her?
Nerds are crazy
True dat
I thought nerds had to keep their pens in pocket protectors.
This is ridic, but I feel it was inevitable. With more people going every year, it’s only understandable that someone would get so riled up and nervous enough to get violent. Unfortunately, this will factor even more into the decision to move the Con to Vegas or Anaheim…
So upsetting. )’:
A stabbing is “inevitable” and “understandable”? God help the USA.
I doubt it will be moved. San Diego has proven to be a city that welcomes this every year. The vast majority of the convention goers are great and go out of their way to help one another. This person who committed the violence was an odd one out.
To move Comic-Con out of San Diego would be a bad move. The center is huge, there are tons of hotels with in minutes, the airport right there. Vegas? BARF! I’ll not go if it’s moved to Vegas. The convention centers there are horribly set up with no proper way to move this amount of people comfortable and safely. Anaheim? Again, not large enough. Plenty of hotels, but this time of year too much competition with Disneyland. Not to mention the drive time to LAX.
Move Comic-Con from San Diego? Think again.
Yeah, the idea that they’d move this to Vegas makes me queasy. Boo, Vegas!
Anaheim’s convention center is larger than San Diego’s.
This was my 11th Comic-con, and it seemed like it was a different even this year. I felt like I was in prison instead of at Comic-con. In previous years (even the recent sold-out years), Comic-con was always a fun, chill plays with everybody having fun and helping each other. But Comic-con itself set the tone this year by having massive amounts of mean guards and other even staff who would yell at you over EVERYTHING. You can’t sit up against the wall in the hallways anymore, and heaven forbid you should leave your seat in an event. I went to the bathroom, and my daughters had to come practically pull me out of a stall because the event staff were threatening to give my seat away because there is no seat saving. With comic-con itself setting this kind of antagonistic tone, it’s no wonder some of the guests became more antagonistic.
I agree about the guards. Several barked at me when they didn’t have to. But wost of all was the guard who told us at 11 a.m. that the line was so long for Ballroom 20 that they weren’t letting anymore people get in the line and threatened to evict us if we insisted on trying to stick around in case they opened it again. So we walked away, only to discover they re-opened the line five minutes later!! We lost about half hour, which would have gotten us in at least one panel earlier!!
I heard one of the guys was wearing a Harry Potter t-shirt. Yikes!
I hope the guy who was stabbed is okay. That’s crazy! I mean seriously, it’s just a seat.
It was probably a Twilight-Harry Potter confrontation then. Those Twilight fan girls are cuh-razy.
Nope, the attacker was wearing Harry Potter shirt. Turns out wand pumpers are the craziest lot of them all!
Okay!! HAS ANYONE been lucky enough to find the DEATHLY HALLOWS footage online????? There are a TON of frustrated HP fans who REALLY want to see it!
I was here during the event, and it did have the whole crowd concerned. They did not, however, empty the hall, and the panels did go on. Appallingly, there were some insensitive “vultures’” taking pictures of the whole thing.
Robert Downey Jr sort of “mocked” the incident when he introduced the newest members of The Avengers by asking the crowd to not stab anyone until their presentation was over.
oh snap! Geeks gone wild!!
There’s a reason I avoid hall H like the plague….
Probably a Lois hater V.S a Chloe hater.
Lmao!
Where the hell was ecutiry in the hall throughout this? How did they allow this man to enter the facility with a weapon? Time to tighten secutiry some more…the nerds are loose!
The weapon was a pencil dumbass
The weapon was actually a pen, dumbass #2.
Can’t we all just get along? Let’s call it a mechanical pencil and move on.
The story has an ending now. 2 friends began to argue over a seat near the back of the auditorium. The argument escalated to a fight and one of them was SCRATCHED near his eye. He asked to be taken to the hospital just in case, but police say it was just a minor woud. His friend will not be arrested.
The worst thing about this incident is the horrible reporting by the media. I was in Hall H too. The guy got scratched in the face with a pencil and everybody reports a “stabbing.” Seems like the more reporters present, the more inaccurate the reporting.
Why are people saying “media” and “reporter” and “journalist”? It’s EW, for crying out loud. The most excitement they usually get is who Paris Hilton is sleeping with this week.
Carol, you obviously don’t read EW regularly. This isn’t Us Weekly.
Also, Paris Hilton? What is this, 2005?
I was there. This was no “scratch.” The victim’s face was covered in blood on both sides and around his eyes. And the alleged attacker was wearing a Harry Potter shirt they gave out earlier in the day that was also covered in blood.
Liar
I was there idiot
I saw a video of the attacker being taken away. The shirt is white and there’s only one spot of blood on his shoulder. He was not covered in blood.
iT WAS dUBBLEDORK