http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3852111/

I did not put this together until the news got a good picture up but I worked with this guy for 7 months when I was in HS. (at a different movie theater) He was a really nice guy.

Too bad some idiot shot him to death during a botched robbery.

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"Raleigh, N.C. — Friends and family plan a vigil Thursday night to remember a movie theater manager who was shot and killed during an attempted robbery last week. The vigil to remember Mark Buhaug begins at 9 p.m. at the Marquee Cinema in the Wakefield Commons shopping center off Capital Boulevard. It is open to the public. Buhaug, a 25-year veteran of the movie business, had managed Marquee Cinemas since August 2005. A masked gunman shot Buhaug, 48, during a robbery attempt at the theater last Friday. Authorities have arrested three men in connection with the shooting. New Jersey authorities arrested the third, Anthony Joseph Bimbo, 40, of Wake Forest, on Monday. Two New Jersey state troopers recognized a stolen 2007 Toyota Sienna minivan from an alert that was issued to law enforcement agencies. The troopers arrested Bimbo at a New Jersey Turnpike rest stop north of Trenton, authorities said. Police also charged two other men with murder in the case – Ryan Becker, 19, and Jason Zilinski, 18. Theater employees said Zilinski worked at the theater and lived with Bimbo, whom neighbors said was his stepfather. Court documents show that Bimbo was going through a divorce, had lost his house to his wife and had just lost his job. Zilinski and Becker graduated from Wake Forest-Rolesville High School last spring. “They were good people. I could not see them ever doing that,” said friend Courtney Hunken. “I was just with them last weekend, hanging out with them, and it’s just so weird to hear that. The next weekend they’re in jail for a murder (and it) just doesn’t seem like something they would do.” Flowers lined the front windows of the Marquee Cinemas’ ticket booth after the shooting. Billy Stiles, a former assistant manager at the theater, was a friend of Buhaug's. “I worked with him for a year and a half, and ... (he was) one of the best guys you could ever work with,” Stiles said. Besides the movie business, Buhaug’s passion was 3-D animation. He was working on a big project, according to friends."

10/30/2008 10:14:44 PM

It was some Bimbo.

10/30/2008 10:16:47 PM

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"Bimbo"

10/30/2008 10:17:41 PM

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"Police also charged two other men with murder in the case – Ryan Becker, 19, and Jason Zilinski, 18. Theater employees said Zilinski worked at the theater and lived with Bimbo, whom neighbors said was his stepfather."

Oh and WTF at this part.

Apparently some kids had something to do with it. Way to blow your entire future right out of high school.

10/30/2008 10:21:00 PM

You would think if they were going to go to the trouble to flee to New Jersey, they would have ditched the car.

10/30/2008 10:38:20 PM

Only the old guy ran.

The two younger ones got arrested locally. Who the hell robs a movie theater on Friday night. There are like eleventy billion bystanders.

10/30/2008 10:43:52 PM

looks like a couple of elves fell in with a bad dwarf

10/30/2008 11:01:02 PM

...who robs a movie theatre?

stupid high school kids. that's who

10/30/2008 11:01:34 PM

haha thats where i went to high school. fuck that place.

10/30/2008 11:23:23 PM

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"RALEIGH - New Jersey state troopers on Monday arrested Anthony Joseph Bimbo, accused of killing the manager of a North Raleigh movie theater, after they spotted him in a stolen minivan at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. The troopers found a .38-caliber handgun in the vehicle, New Jersey authorities said. Jim Sughrue, a Raleigh police spokesman, declined to say whether a .38-caliber was used in the shooting. "A handgun was used in the robbery and fired the fatal shot," Sughrue said. "So we will certainly be conducting a follow-up investigation and certainly look at that gun as the murder weapon." Bimbo, 40, of 5405 Orchard Oriole Trail in Wake Forest is charged with the murder of Mark Douglas Buhaug, 48. Buhaug was working in the box office at Marquee Cinemas in the Wakefield Commons Shopping Center off Capital Boulevard when he was shot during a robbery attempt late Friday. Lt. Gerald Lewis, spokesman for the New Jersey State Police, said Tuesday that two troopers patrolling a rest area in Middlesex County spotted a vehicle that matched the description of one driven by Bimbo. The 2007 Toyota Sienna was stolen Saturday morning in Wake Forest during a home invasion robbery. Bimbo has been charged with that crime, also. The troopers, Robert Schaffter and Anthony Casciano, requested help before approaching the vehicle. The troopers learned that the man inside was Bimbo, who was arrested without incident, Lewis said. Bimbo is in custody at the Middlesex County jail, awaiting extradition, Lewis said. Two Wake Forest teens also are charged in the death. Ryan M. Becker, 19, of 1316 Colonial Drive and Jason Anthony Zilinski, 18, of the same address as Bimbo, are in jail in Raleigh. Zilinski is Bimbo's stepson. Bimbo moved to Wake County from New Jersey in 2006, according to state records. "

10/31/2008 2:11:20 AM

i make car parts for the American working man... because thats who i am, and that's who i care about.

10/31/2008 2:30:59 AM

i swear that bimbo dude worked the late night shift at the gas station on tryon rd near that swift creek shopping center but no mention of him working there in the article

10/31/2008 5:17:43 AM

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6480127

Weird how all 3 of the people charged with murder seemed to be well liked by neighbors and co-workers. I guess you never really know anyone.

11/1/2008 4:54:44 PM