--- description: Hollywood expresses its grief over Thursday night's shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana title: Trainwreck Amy Schumer "Heart is Broken" Over Louisiana Shooting image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7336b99ee2e0ad6/69885ba90b72e31b4a6e4ff8/trainwreck.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Trainwreck_ Star Amy Schumer 'Heart is Broken' Over La. Theater Shooting by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 24, 2015 10:04 AM CUT  Amy Schumer in Trainwreck Amy Schumer in TrainwreckMary Cybulski — Universal Studios by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 24, 2015 10:04 AM CUT _Trainwreck_ actress Amy Schumer has expressed grief over the news of [Thursday night’s shooting](http://time.com/3970576/shooting-louisiana-movie-theater/ "undefined"), which unfolded during a screening of the romantic comedy in Lafayette, Louisiana. The comedy central star wrote of her devastation on Twitter: > [](https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/624419088924741632) Other stars despaired over the tragedy that left 2 dead and 7 injured after a 58-year-old man fired a handgun into the audience at Grand 16 Theater before turning the weapon on himself. _Clerks_ actor and director, Kevin Smith, expressed his sadness on the social networking site: > [](https://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith/status/624452571160162304) _The Office’s_ Jenna Fisher called out for gun reform: > [](https://twitter.com/jennafischer/status/624451621926400000) Louisiana Governer Bobby Jindal called for prayers for the families of those affected from the scene. “This is a time for us to come together,” he said. “What we can do now is pray. We can hug these families, shower them with love, thoughts and prayers. This is an awful night for Lafayette, an awful night for Louisiana, an awful night for the United States.” The shooting happened hours after President Barack Obama said that the lack of gun control in the U.S. was his biggest frustration. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3970792/amy-schumer-louisiana-theatre/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3970792/amy-schumer-louisiana-theatre/"},"headline":"Trainwreck Star Amy Schumer 'Heart is Broken' Over La. Theater Shooting","datePublished":"2015-07-24T10:04:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:33:17.671Z","description":"Hollywood expresses its grief over Thursday night's shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana","url":"https://time.com/3970792/amy-schumer-louisiana-theatre/","keywords":["Crime","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7336b99ee2e0ad6/69885ba90b72e31b4a6e4ff8/trainwreck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7336b99ee2e0ad6/69885ba90b72e31b4a6e4ff8/trainwreck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trainwreck","caption":"Trainwreck","creditText":"Mary Cybulski — Universal Studios","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3970792/amy-schumer-louisiana-theatre/","name":"Trainwreck Star Amy Schumer 'Heart is Broken' Over La. Theater Shooting"}}]}] ```