3 dead,7 hurt when gunman opens fire in Lafayette movie theater.

 (CNN)As the previews ended and the lights dimmed for the screening of the comedy "Trainwreck," a man stood up inside a packed Lafayette movie theater and began firing indiscriminately.

The shooter, a 58-year-old white man, killed two people and wounded seven others at the Louisiana multiplex Thursday night before he turned his handgun on himself and took his own life, police said.

Coming within days of the verdict in the Aurora theater massacre, and its saturation news coverage, there was some speculation whether the shooting was a copycat crime.

"There's nothing to believe that there was any kind of motive," said Col. Michael Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police.

Authorities have the gunman's name but are withholding it as the investigation continues.

"We want to talk to the [victims'] families first and let them know what happened," Edmonson said. "We owe them that respect."

The shooting took place during the 7:10 p.m. (8:10 p.m. ET) screening of "Trainwreck" at The Grand Theater 16 in Lafayette, a city of about 120,000 people, 60 miles west of Baton Rouge.

About 100 people were inside when the bullets flew