Samuel French Theatre & Film Bookshop in Hollywood, Calif., which recently announced it would be closing March 31, was forced to close earlier this week after being broken into and vandalized. The store will not reopen.
In a statement posted on Facebook, the store wrote: "The plan had been for the bookshop to shutter at the end of this month, however on the night of Monday, March 5, it was broken into and seriously vandalized. And earlier that day, several men deliberately intimidated a beloved member of our staff on the premises. The police require us to close the store pending their investigation and with our staff's safety in mind, we are unable to reopen it."