Police: 12 dead in Colorado theater shooting

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman opened fire early Friday at a suburban Denver movie theater on the opening night of the latest Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said.

The gunman, who is in custody, stood at the front of the theater and fired into the crowd about 12:30 a.m. MDT at a multiplex theater in a mall in Aurora.

"Witnesses tell us he released some sort of canister. They heard a hissing sound and some gas emerged and the gunman opened fire,"Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said at a news conference.

Police, ambulances and emergency crews swarmed on the scene after frantic calls started flooding the 911 switchboard, officials said.

Officers came running in and telling people to leave the theater, Salina Jordan told the Denver Post. She said some police were carrying and dragging bodies.

Officers later found the gunman near a car behind the theater.

"A gas mask, rifle, handgun at least one additional weapon (were) found inside," he said.

The suspect was taken into custody, but no name was released. Oates said there's no evidence of any other attackers. There was also no immediate word of any motive.

The suspect spoke of "possible explosives in his residence. We are dealing with that potential threat," Oates said

Police were at the Denver-area apartment and had evacuated other residents of the building. Oates did not say whether any explosives had been found.

He said police also checked for explosives in the parking lot and at the Century 16 theater and secured those areas.

Moviegoers spoke of their terror as violence erupted and people around them fell victim.

Bejamin Fernandez, 30, told the Post that he heard a series of explosions. He said that people ran from the theater and there were gunshots as police shouted "get down!"

Frenandez said he saw people falling, including one young girl.

Jordan told the paper that one girl was struck in cheek, others in stomach including a girl who looked to be around 9-years-old.

Jordan said it sounded like firecrackers until someone ran into Theater 8 yelling "they're shooting out here!"

Hayden Miller told KUSA-TV that he heard several shots.

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Permalink Reply by arisuta2 on July 20, 2012 at 9:24am

Yet another assault on the right to bear arms? Everytime it looks like the proletariat are gaining power to keep their right to be armed, there is a massacre or atrocity that appears to weaken that power. In the UK it was the Dunblane massacre by a man driven mad by his handlers and allowed access to guns and ammunition despite being unhinged. A similar incident took place in Tasmania resulting in the outlawing of guns in Australia. The elite are afraid of us, especially if we have guns.

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Permalink Reply by Wake Up on July 20, 2012 at 10:25am

I was thinking the exact same thing!!

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Permalink Reply by Ph*l*p on July 20, 2012 at 11:37am

yup, this could be a programed sleeper assassin.

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Permalink Reply by suzie on July 20, 2012 at 12:33pm

i was thinking the same thing .. an illuminatti sleeper ..a victim of MK = they want to disarm us for our own safety of course .. too coinsidental to me .. with the UN treaty .. Obama asking us to pray saying this is not a day for politic's yeah right!! pray to who? satan lol

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Permalink Reply by Unemployed Storm trooper TK420 on July 21, 2012 at 6:14pm

I Found me this comment on Alex Jones page...I thought it was interesting so I came to share it here...Check this out:

the shooting happened in century 16 cinema, in theater 9…the shooter lives in 1690 paris street…the only place in the world that cancels the movie was paris… his licence plate was 119RDC thats 911 backwards…R is the 18th letter in the alphabet 6+6+6=18 DC are 4×3 =12 dead…lil wayne’s video My Homies Still… at 3:38 freeze and count the 12 skeletons in the movie theatre…freeze at 2:36 the all seeing eye… freeze at 2:13 the gas canisters go off…Defense Dept.: 2 airmen,1 sailor wounded and 1 sailor unaccounted for in Colorado shooting really 1 unaccounted for…? when this first started they were saying 14 dead latter it rose to 15 and the wound up with 12 dead and unaccount for soldier lets not let them get away with lies…the reason they like to leave 911 all over is revelations 9:11… Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is [Abaddon,] and in Greek, [Apollyon]–the Destroyer.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Anduer on July 20, 2012 at 10:09am

You can look at the situation by saying, See, that's why they want to ban guns, Guns are dangerous! or "I should have brought my Beretta with me, I could have saved some lives.

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on July 20, 2012 at 10:41am

yes, if 50% of the audience would have been carrying, then this might have been reduced or prevented, too bad I wasn't there, I always conceal carry when in mass crowds of morons. (its not that often) We can still do this in Va

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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on July 20, 2012 at 10:45am

Paris: Premeier of New Batman Movie Cancelled

The Paris premiere of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" has been canceled after a gunman killed 12 people at a Colorado opening of the same film.

Workers were pulling down the red carpet display in front of a movie theater on the French capital's famed Champs-Elysees Avenue on Friday afternoon. Some could be seen carrying away a large mask that had adorned the facade of the theater.

The night before in a Denver suburb, a man wearing a gas mask released an unknown gas into a crowded movie theater and opened fire. Twelve people were killed and at least 50 wounded. The shooter, a man in his 20s, has been arrested. The FBI says there is no indication so far of any links to terror groups.

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Permalink Reply by arisuta2 on July 20, 2012 at 11:08am

"The FBI says there is no indication so far of any links to terror groups." Apart from the shadow government who intend to emasculate us all and then wipe us out.