I began covering it as soon as I saw it on the Globe web site:
"At least 12 killed, dozens injured in Colo. theater shooting" by Thomas Peipert | Associated Press, July 20, 2012
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight showing of the new Batman movie Friday, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent US history.
When the smoke began to spread, some moviegoers thought it was a stunt that was part of the ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises,’’ one of the most highly anticipated films of the summer. They saw a silhouette of a person in the haze near the screen, pointing a gun at the crowd and then shooting.
‘‘There were bullet (casings) just falling on my head. They were burning my forehead,’’ Jennifer Seeger said, adding that the gunman, dressed like a SWAT team member, fired steadily, stopping only to reload.
‘‘Every few seconds it was just: Boom, boom, boom,’’ she said. ‘‘He would reload and shoot and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed.’’
The suspect was taken into custody near a car behind the theater and was identified by federal law enforcement officials as 24-year-old James Holmes.
Holmes was studying neuroscience in a Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado-Denver, university spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said. Holmes enrolled a year ago and was in the process of withdrawing at the time of the shootings, Montgomery said.
Authorities gave no motive for the attack. The FBI said there was no indication of ties to any terrorist groups.
Holmes had an assault rifle, a shotgun and two pistols, a federal law enforcement official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding.
FBI agents and police used a hook and ladder fire truck to reach Holmes’ apartment in Aurora, police Chief Dan Oates said. They put a camera at the end of a 12-foot pole inside the apartment and discovered the unit was booby-trapped. Authorities evacuated five buildings as they tried to figure how to disarm the flammable and explosive material.
At least 24 people were being treated at Denver-area hospitals, some of them for chemical exposure apparently related to canisters thrown by the gunman. Some of those hurt were children, including a 4-month-old baby, who was treated a hospital and released.
Police released a statement from Holmes’ family: ‘‘Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved.’’
The movie opened across the world Friday with midnight showings in the US. The shooting prompted officials to cancel the red-carpet premiere in Paris, with workers pulling down the display at a theater on the Champs-Elysees. Around the US, police and some movie theaters stepped up security for daytime showings of the movie, though many fans waiting in line said they were not worried about their safety.
President Barack Obama said he was saddened by the ‘‘horrific and tragic shooting,’’ pledging that his administration was ‘‘committed to bringing whoever was responsible to justice, ensuring the safety of our people, and caring for those who have been wounded.’’
Shut your drone-dropping ass up, sir.
It was the worst mass shooting in the US since the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood, Texas. An Army psychiatrist was charged with killing 13 soldiers and civilians and wounding more than two dozen others.
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Do you like what you are seeing?
In Colorado, it was the deadliest since the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, when two students opened fire in the Denver suburb of Littleton, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves. Columbine High is about 12 miles from the theater.
Friday’s attack began shortly after midnight at the multiplex theater.
Oh, that sure is a spooky coincidence.
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Questions? How could there be questions?
The film has several scenes of public mayhem — a hallmark of superhero movies. In one scene, the main villain Bane leads an attack on the stock exchange and, in another, leads a shooting and bombing rampage on a packed football stadium.
Is that what is next?
The gunman released a gas that smelled like pepper spray from a green canister, Seeger said. ‘‘I thought it was showmanship. I didn’t think it was real,’’ she said.
Seeger said she was in the second row, about four feet from the gunman, when he pointed a gun at her face. At first, ‘‘I was just a deer in headlights. I didn’t know what to do,’’ she said. Then she ducked to the ground as the gunman shot people seated behind her.
She said she began crawling toward an exit when she saw a girl of about 14 ‘‘lying lifeless on the stairs.’’ She saw a man with a bullet wound in his back and tried to check his pulse, but ‘‘I had to go. I was going to get shot.’’
Witness Shayla Roeder said she saw a teenage girl on the ground bleeding outside the theater. ‘‘She just had this horrible look in her eyes. .... We made eye contact and I could tell she was not all right,’’ Roeder said.
Police, ambulances and emergency crews swarmed on the scene after frantic calls started flooding the 911 switchboard. 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.
Hayden Miller told KUSA-TV that he heard several shots. ‘‘Like little explosions going on and shortly after that we heard people screaming,’’ he told the station. Hayden said at first he thought it was part of a louder movie next door. But then he saw ‘‘people hunched over leaving theater.’’
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That was changed to this:
"At least 12 killed, dozens injured in Colo. theater shooting" by P. Solomon Banda and Thomas Peipert | Associated Press, July 20, 2012
AURORA, Colo. — As the new Batman movie played on the screen, a gunman dressed in black and wearing a helmet, body armor and a gas mask stepped through a side door. At first he was just a silhouette, taken by some in the audience for a stunt that was part of one of the summer’s most highly anticipated films.
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But then, authorities said, he threw gas canisters that filled the packed suburban Denver theater with smoke, and, in the confusing haze between Hollywood fantasy and terrifying reality, opened fire as people screamed and dove for cover.
Let' just say I'll never again believe what I see on television.
At least 12 people were killed and 59 wounded in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent US history.
‘‘He looked like an assassin ready to go to war,’’ said Jordan Crofter, a moviegoer who was unhurt in the attack early Friday, about a half-hour after the special midnight opening of ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises.’’
The gunman, identified by police as 24-year-old James Holmes, used a military-style semi-automatic rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, stopping only to reload.
The suspect marched up the aisle in the stadium-style theater, picking off those who tried to flee, witnesses said. Authorities said he hit 71 people. One of them was struck in an adjacent theater by gunfire that went through the wall.
‘‘He would reload and shoot and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed,’’ said Jennifer Seeger, adding that bullet casings landed on her head and burned her forehead.
Within minutes, frantic 911 calls brought some 200 police officers, ambulances and emergency crews to the theater. Holmes was captured in the parking lot. Police said they later found that his nearby apartment was booby-trapped.
Authorities gave no motive for the attack. The FBI said there was no indication of ties to any terrorist groups.
In New York City, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said: ‘‘It clearly looks like a deranged individual. He has his hair painted red. He said he was the Joker, obviously the enemy of Batman.’’
Except the Joker had green hair.
Ever hear of MK-Ultra, Operation Blubird, or Project Artichoke, readers?
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates would not confirm that information, but did say he had spoken to Kelly. The two used to work together in New York. Asked whether Holmes had makeup to look like the Joker, Oates said: ‘‘That to my knowledge is not true.’’
Sigh.
It was the worst mass shooting in the US since the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood, Texas. An Army psychiatrist was charged with killing 13 soldiers and civilians and wounding more than two dozen others.
It was the deadliest in Colorado since the Columbine High School massacre in suburban Denver in 1999, when two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher and wounded 26 others before killing themselves.
The new Batman movie, the last in the trilogy starring Christian Bale, opened worldwide Friday with midnight showings in the US. The plot has the villain Bane facing Bale’s Caped Crusader with a nuclear weapon that could destroy all of fictional Gotham.
First he's an Occupy protester attacking the stock exchange and no this? I'm already not liking the movie.
The shooting prompted officials to cancel the red-carpet premiere in Paris, and some US movie theaters stepped up security for daytime showings.
The attack began shortly after midnight at the multiplex in Aurora, an urban community on Denver’s eastside. Audience members said they thought it was part of the movie, or some kind of stunt associated with it.
The film has several scenes of public mayhem — a hallmark of superhero movies. In one scene, Bane leads an attack on a stock exchange, and in another he leads a shooting and bombing rampage on a packed football stadium.
A federal law enforcement official said Holmes bought a ticket to the show, went into the theater as part of the crowd and propped open an exit door as the movie was playing.
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The suspect then donned protective ballistic gear and opened fire, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
At some point, the gunman appeared to have stepped outside because several witnesses saw him come through the door.
‘‘All I saw is the door swinging open and the street lights behind, and you could see a silhouette,’’ said Crofter, who was sitting on the left side of the theater and toward the front.
Sylvana Guillen said the gunman, clad in dark clothing, appeared at the front of the theater as the character Catwoman appeared in the movie. Then they heard gunshots and smelled smoke from a canister he was carrying.
As she and her friend, Misha Mostashiry, ran to the exit, Guillen said, they saw a man slip in the blood of a wounded woman he was trying to help.
Oates said the gunman wore a gas mask and a ballistic helmet and vest, as well as leg, groin and throat protectors. He said among the guns was an AR-15 rifle and that the gunman used two gas canisters.
‘‘I thought it was showmanship. I didn’t think it was real,’’ Seeger said. She said she was in the second row, about four feet from the gunman, when he pointed a gun at her face. ‘‘I was just a deer in headlights. I didn’t know what to do,’’ she said.
Then she ducked to the ground as the gunman shot people seated behind her.
Seeger said she began crawling toward an exit when she saw a girl of about 14 ‘‘lying lifeless on the stairs.’’ She saw a man with a bullet wound in his back and tried to check his pulse, but ‘‘I had to go. I was going to get shot.’’
Moviegoer Eric Hunter and his friends made their way to an exit. When he opened the door, he said, he saw two teenage girls — one shot in the mouth and the other one crying. He asked them if they were OK. ‘‘Help us. Help us, please,’’ he recalled them saying.
Later, police began entering the theater, asking people to hold their hands up as they evacuated the building.
Some of the victims were treated for chemical exposure apparently related to canisters thrown by the gunman. Those hurt included a 4-month-old baby, who was treated at a hospital and released.
Those who knew Holmes described him as a shy, intelligent person raised in California by parents who were active in their well-to-do suburban neighborhood in San Diego. Holmes played soccer at Westview High School and ran cross-country before going to college.
On Friday morning, police escorted Holmes’ father, a manager of a software company, from their home while his mother, a nurse, stayed inside, receiving visitors who came to offer support. Holmes also has a younger sister.
‘‘As you can understand, the Holmes family is very upset about all of this,’’ Lt. Andra Brown, the San Diego police spokeswoman, told reporters in the driveway of the family home. ‘‘It’s a tragic event and it’s taken everyone by surprise. They are definitely trying to work through this.’’
Police released a statement from his family that said: ‘‘Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved.’’
There have been no indications so far that Holmes had any run-ins with the law before Friday.
Tom Mai, a retired electrical engineer, said Holmes was a ‘‘shy guy’’ who came from a ‘‘very, very nice family.’’Holmes graduated from University of California, Riverside, in the spring of 2010 a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience, a school spokesman said. Mai said the mother told him Holmes couldn’t find a job after earning a master’s degree and returned to school.
He must have been lazy.
In 2011, he enrolled in the Ph.D. neuroscience program at the University of Colorado-Denver but was in the process of withdrawing, a university spokeswoman said.
Holmes lived in an apartment in Aurora, and FBI agents and police who went there discovered it was booby-trapped when they used a camera at the end of a 12-foot pole to look inside.
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"More details emerge on shooting suspect" by Dan Elliott and Michael R. Blood | Associated Press, July 20, 2012
SAN DIEGO — James Eagan Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave of two-story homes with red-tiled roofs, where neighbors recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words.
Tall and dark-haired, he stared clear-eyed at the camera in a 2004 high school yearbook snapshot, wearing a white junior varsity soccer uniform — No. 16.
The son of a nurse, Arlene, and a software company manager, Robert, James Holmes was a brilliant science scholar in college.
The biggest mystery surrounding the 24-year-old doctoral student was why he would have pulled on a gas mask and shot dozens of people early Friday in a suburban Denver movie theater, as police allege.
In the age of widespread social media, no trace of Holmes could be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter or anywhere on the web. Either he never engaged or he scrubbed his trail.
A longtime neighbor in San Diego, where Holmes grew up, remembers only a ‘‘shy guy ... a loner’’ from a churchgoing family.
In addition to playing soccer at Westview High School, he ran cross country.
The bookish demeanor concealed an unspooling life. Holmes struggled to find work after graduating with highest honors in the spring of 2010 with a neuroscience degree from the University of California, Riverside, said the neighbor, retired electrical engineer Tom Mai.
Holmes enrolled last year in a neuroscience Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado-Denver but was in the process of withdrawing, said school officials, who didn’t provide a reason.
As part of the advanced program in Denver, a James Holmes had been listed as making a presentation in May about Micro DNA Biomarkers in a class named ‘‘Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders.’’
In academic achievement ‘‘he was at the top of the top,’’ recalled Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White.
And he couldn't get a job?
Holmes concentrated his study on ‘‘how we all behave,’’ White added. ‘‘It’s ironic and sad.’’
From a distance, Holmes’ life appears unblemished, a young man with unlimited potential. There are no indications he had problems with police.
Somehow, the acclaimed student and quiet neighbor reached a point where he painted his hair red, called himself ‘‘The Joker,’’ the green-haired villain from the Batman movies, according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who said he had been briefed on the matter.
Except the local cop said it's not true!
Holmes headed for the theater in body armor, armed with an assault-style rifle, a shotgun and two Glock handguns, authorities said.
Police said he started his attack by tossing a gas canister into the theater, where he had bought a ticket for the midnight showing of ‘‘The Dark Night Rises,’’ the new Batman movie.
How did he get in?
A federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing probe into the rampage, said Holmes bought each of the four guns from retailers in the last two months.
That is odd.
Holmes bought his first Glock pistol in Aurora, Colo., on May 22. Six days later, he picked up a Remington shotgun in Denver. About two weeks later, he bought a .223 caliber Smith & Wesson rifle in Thornton, Colo., and then a second Glock in Denver on July 6 — 13 days before the shooting, the official said.
A high-volume drum magazine was attached to the rifle, an assault weapon, the official said.
Julie Adams, whose son played junior varsity soccer with Holmes, said her son remembered little about the suspect, which was unusual for the tight-knit team.
‘‘I don’t think many of the kids (teammates) knew him. He was kind of a loner,’’ she said.
Kind of?
Jackie Mitchell, a furniture mover who lives several blocks from the suspect’s apartment building in Colorado, said he had drinks with Holmes at a local bar on Tuesday night, though he gave no sign of being distressed or violent.
After Holmes approached him ‘‘we just talked about football. He had a backpack and geeky glasses and seemed like a real intelligent guy, and I figured he was one of the college students,’’ Mitchell said.
So WHO GOT TO HIM, folks?
When Mitchell saw Holmes’ photo after the shooting, ‘‘the hair stood up on my back,’’ he said. ‘‘I know this guy.’’
Holmes is not talking to police and has asked for a lawyer, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing case.
Police found jars of chemicals in Holmes’ booby-trapped apartment with wires nearby, the law enforcement official said.
When he surrendered meekly in the movie house parking lot, Holmes told authorities what he'd done at his residence in the Denver suburb of Aurora, the third most populous city in Colorado.
Why would he tell them that?
“Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved,’’ Holmes’ family said in a written statement Friday. ‘‘We ask that the media respect our privacy during this difficult time.’’
San Diego Superior Court spokeswoman Karen Dalton said there were no records found under his name, not even for a traffic ticket. Riverside County prosecutors also have no criminal record for him, said John Hall, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office.
On Friday morning, police escorted the suspect’s father from the family’s San Diego home. The mother stayed inside, receiving visitors who came to offer support.
San Diego police spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown, spoke to reporters in the driveway of the Holmes’ home, on behalf of the family.
‘‘As you can understand, the Holmes family is very upset about all of this,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s a tragic event and it’s taken everyone by surprise.’’
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Related: Accused shooter was quiet intellectual
"Colorado gunman kills 12, wounds 59 in movie theater massacre" by Dan Frosch and Michael S. Schmidt | New York Times, July 21, 2012
AURORA, Colo. — A former neuroscience honors student dressed in full body armor and carrying three weapons, including an assault rifle, opened fire in a crowded theater at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie early Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 59 others, police and federal officials said.
I thought he bought four weapons.
The suspect, James Holmes, 24, was arrested within minutes in the parking lot of the Aurora multiplex theater that was showing the much-anticipated sequel, “The Dark Knight Rises.’’ The attack was so bizarre that many audience members first thought it was a stunt associated with the movie.
Holmes told investigators after his arrest that he had booby-trapped his apartment in Aurora, a Denver suburb, with explosive devices. That led police to evacuate five buildings in the neighborhood as they disabled what they called ‘‘incendiary and chemical devices’’ that appeared to be rigged to trip wires.
Police believe Holmes acted alone, and said he had no known links to terrorist organizations.
Investigators have uncovered no solid indications of a motive.
The injuries of the victims included gunshot wounds and shrapnel injuries, hospital officials said. At least 12 people were in critical condition, and there were fears that the death toll might rise.
While some witnesses said the gunman entered through a side-door emergency exit at the front of the theater, a federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Holmes bought a ticket and went into the theater as part of the crowd, the Associated Press reported.
The official said Holmes then apparently propped open an exit door in the theater as the movie was playing, donned the protective ballistic gear, and began his attack.
Smells fishy to me.
Witnesses said Holmes, who wore a gas mask, set off two smoke devices before firing randomly at audience members, who had just settled into their seats. Within minutes, he was arrested in a parking lot behind the theater near his car, the police said.
Holmes had apparently planned the attack for some time: In addition to the gas mask, he wore body armor and a ballistic helmet and was dressed completely in black. His gear included a throat protector, a groin protector, a bulletproof vest and leggings, and tactical gloves.
Where did he get the $$$ to buy all this shit?
He entered the theater with an AR-15 assault rifle, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun, and a .40-caliber Glock handgun. A fourth gun, another Glock pistol, was found in his car.
Aaah. Of course, the cops would never plant evidence.
Federal law enforcement officials said information they had obtained about the purchase of the AR-15 rifle indicates that it was bought locally and apparently legally, as were the other guns.
The suspect had a clip with more than 20 rounds, a federal official said, that would have been illegal under the assault rifle ban, which expired in 2004. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives handed over information on where and when the guns were purchased to the police in Aurora.
Investigators found no evidence of any past aberrant behavior by Holmes. ‘‘He’s not on anybody’s radar screen — nothing,’’ a law enforcement official said. Holmes’s only criminal history is a traffic summons, the authorities said.
President Obama said he was saddened by the ‘‘horrific and tragic shooting,’’ pledging that his administration was ‘‘committed to bringing whoever was responsible to justice, ensuring the safety of our people, and caring for those who have been wounded.’’
It was the worst mass shooting in the United States since the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood, Texas. In Colorado, it was the deadliest since the Columbine High School massacre April 20, 1999, when two students opened fire in the Denver suburb of Littleton, killing 12 classmates and a teacher.
‘‘This is the act, apparently, of a very deranged mind,’’ said Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who dispatched officers to patrol screenings of the film in New York, said he had been told the shooting suspect had hair painted red and said he was the Joker. That detail could not be initially confirmed.
Holmes earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in neuroscience in 2010 from the University of California, Riverside, and was a graduate student in neurosciences at the Anshutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado, although the university said in a statement that he was in the process of withdrawing. He was currently collecting unemployment, a federal law enforcement official said.
I suppose now there will be an argument to ban unemployment insurance.
A spokeswoman for the university, Jackie Brinkman, said that Holmes was dropping out of school because of academic problems. Brinkman said the university was unaware of any incidents with the campus police or disciplinary problems involving Holmes while he was enrolled.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said he did not know how many shots the gunman had fired, saying only that it was ‘‘many, many rounds,’’ one of which passed through a wall and wounded a moviegoer in an adjoining theater.
The authorities have not released the names of victims, but a family member identified one of them as Jessica Ghawi, who was also known as Jessica Redfield.
Ghawi, 24, was a sports blogger who recently wrote of surviving a Toronto shooting. Ghawi blogged at length about the Eaton Centre mall shooting that killed two people and sent several others to the hospital.
Strange coincidence.
The injuries of the Colorado victims included gunshot wounds and shrapnel injuries, hospital officials said. At least 12 people were in critical condition.
The shooting erupted at the Century 16 Movie Theater during the first showings of ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises.’’
Throngs had gathered, some dressed as characters from the Batman sequel. The four screenings of the film were sold out, although it is not quite clear how many people were inside at the time.
Obama, in Florida as part of a campaign swing, was notified of the shooting by his top counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, at 5:26 a.m., the White House said.
“We do not believe at this point there was an apparent nexus to terrorism,’’ Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One.
Obama returned to Washington on Friday afternoon, cutting short his Florida trip, his campaign said. In remarks at a previously scheduled stop in Fort Myers, Fla., Obama talked in highly personal ways about the tragedy.
‘‘My daughters go to the movies,’’ he said. ‘‘What if Malia and Sasha had been in the theater as so many of our kids do every day? Michelle and I will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight.’’
Both Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, said they planned to pull television campaign ads in Colorado.
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A spokesman for Warner Bros. said the studio pulled its trailer for an upcoming film, ‘‘Gangster Squad,’’ which is set for release in September. In the trailer, which was shown at some screenings of ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises,’’ but not in the Aurora theater, men are seen shooting into the crowd in a movie theater.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, who has waged a national campaign for stricter gun laws, called on Obama and Romney to more concretely address the issue of gun violence in their campaigns.
‘‘You know, soothing words are nice,’’ Bloomberg said during his weekly radio program, ‘‘but maybe it’s time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they are going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country.’’
Bodies aren't even cold yet and this guy is pushing the agenda.
So what do you suggest for a mass-murdering government that goes to war over lies, Mike?
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"Moviegoers describe scenes of horror, chaos; ‘All you could do is hope he didn’t come for you’" Associated Press, July 21, 2012
AURORA, Colo. — Jennifer Seeger was in the second row of the theater, about 4 feet from the gunman, when he pointed a gun at her face.
At first, ‘‘I was just a deer in headlights. I didn’t know what to do,’’ said Seeger, 25, of Aurora. Then she ducked to the ground, and the gunman shot people seated behind her.
‘‘There were bullet [casings] just falling on my head. They were burning my forehead,’’ Seeger said.
The gunman fired steadily except when he apparently stopped to reload. ‘‘Every few seconds it was just ‘Boom, boom, boom,’’’ she said.
‘‘He would reload and shoot and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed,’’ she said.
Seeger said she began crawling toward an exit when she saw a girl about 14 years old, ‘‘lying lifeless on the stairs.’’ She saw a man with a bullet wound in his back and tried to check his pulse, but ‘‘I had to go. I was going to get shot.’’
‘‘I thought it was showmanship. I didn’t think it was real,’’ she said.
Sylvana Guillen, 20, said that when a man appeared at the front of the theater clad in dark clothing looking like a SWAT team member as Catwoman made an appearance in the movie, the audience ‘‘thought it was a joke, a hoax.’’
Then they heard gunshots and smelled smoke from a canister he was carrying, and Guillen knew it was real.
The gunman began walking toward the seats and firing. Guillen said she told her friend, Misha Mostashiry, ‘‘You better get ready to be shot.’’
Mostashiry, also 20, said they couldn’t tell where the gunman was. ‘‘All you could do is hope he didn’t come for you,’’ she said.
Tanner Coon told the NBC ‘‘Today’’ show he was at the movie with a friend and his friend’s 12-year-old brother when about 20 minutes into the movie the gunman appeared. Coon said that when they realized they were being shot at, they got on the floor in front of their seats.
After ‘‘a period of quiet’’ everyone started to run out.
He said he went to a row behind him and ‘‘slipped on some blood and landed’’ on a woman. He said he shook her, telling her they needed to get out, but she was unresponsive.
Moviegoer William Kent told CBS’s ‘‘This Morning’’ he was in theater 8, next door to the theater where the shooting happened.
‘‘There was a lot going on in the soundtrack of the movie at that time. So in the beginning, I don’t think people realized what was happening,’’ he said.
Kent said he saw pieces of the wall fall out, apparently as shots came through, and the emergency alarm went off. The theater told people to leave.
‘‘There was huge commotion to get out of the theater and when I exited, there were police with assault rifles running in.’’
‘‘I went out to enjoy a movie and I ended up in a gruesome thing. I don’t know how you would qualify it. I think it seems like a terrorist act.’’
Jordan Crofter, 19, of Aurora, said the suspected gunman ‘‘looked like an assassin ready to go war.’’
Crofter was sitting on the left side of the theater and toward the front when the door swung open and a silhouette appeared in front of the street lights. He said the shooter was calm and almost strutted in, then pulled up his rifle and started shooting, stopping only to reload, like ‘‘shooting fish in a barrel.’’
When he saw two gas canisters hit the ground, Crofter immediately ran out of the theater.
Crofter said he was the first one in the lobby and when the manager asked what was going on, he yelled, ‘‘Bomb.’’
Eric Hunter, 23, said he and his friends thought what they were hearing firecrackers that were part of the movie. So, they settled back to continue watching the movie for another 10 to 20 seconds before they heard several more shots.
Hunter said he and his friends made their way to an exit. When Hunter opened the door, he saw two teenage girls, one shot in the mouth and the other one crying.
Hunter said he was about to close the door when he saw the gunman. ‘‘He’s coming my way so I shut the door. So I hold the door for a little bit. He’s banging on the door for about 10 seconds,’’
Hunter said he was afraid the gunman would shoot through door, so he let it go and managed to get out of the theater safely.
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"Colorado suspect’s apartment was rigged to kill; As police dismantle explosives, victims named — one of them just 6" by John Eligon | New York Times, July 22, 2012
AURORA, Colo. — Federal and local authorities began disarming the booby-trapped apartment of a man arrested in the deadly mass shooting at a movie theater, neutralizing many of the sophisticated explosive devices on Saturday while trying to preserve evidence that might offer insight into the rampage.
Sergeant Cassidee Carlson of the Aurora Police Department said bomb specialists had eliminated the major threats in the apartment, making it safe to enter. But “there still remains all kinds of hazards inside the apartment,” she said. “We will remain here for hours to collect evidence and mitigate those hazards.”
Authorities disabled a second triggering device, she said, but the only way of knowing if all threats had been eliminated would be by entering the apartment.
The suspect, James Holmes, 24, is being held at the Arapahoe County Jail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges stemming from the rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 58, in one of the worst mass shootings in US history....
Neighbors described him as a solitary figure. They said that they heard loud music throbbing in his third-floor apartment, and often complained about it, or noticed a strange, purple light in the windows.
Initial spasms of shock and anger turned to raw, open sadness in Aurora on Saturday....
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"Assault rifle jammed in Colo. attack" by Alicia A. Caldwell and Mead Gruver | Associated Press, July 22, 2012
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The semiautomatic assault rifle used by the gunman in a mass shooting at a midnight showing of the latest Batman movie jammed during the attack, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press, which forced the shooter to switch to another gun with less fire power.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to in order to discuss the investigation, said the disabled weapon had a high-capacity ammunition magazine. Police have said that a 100-round drum magazine was recovered at the scene and that such a device would be able to fire 50 to 60 rounds a minute.
That account of what happened inside the Century 16 theater emerged with other details of a suspect described as a budding scientist, brimming with potential, who pursued a graduate program even as he planned the attack with ‘‘calculation and deliberation,’’ police said Saturday.
James Holmes, 24, received shipments that authorities believe armed him for battle and were used to booby trap his home with dozens of bombs.
This didn't raise any red flags.
In Aurora, investigators spent hours Saturday removing explosive materials from inside Holmes’ apartment a day after police said he opened fire and set off gas canisters in a theater minutes into a premiere of the ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises.’’ The massacre left 12 people dead and 58 injured.
His apartment was rigged with jars of liquids, explosives and chemicals that were booby trapped to kill ‘‘whoever entered it,’’ Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said, noting it would have likely been one of his officers.
Then why we he warn the cops?
Holmes received several mail deliveries over four months to his home and school and bought thousands rounds of ammunition on the Internet.
I thought there was no trace of him on the Internet, and the bullet buying didn't raise any flags, huh?
‘‘He had a high volume of deliveries,’’ Oates said. ‘‘We think this explains how he got his hands on the magazine, ammunition,’’ he said, as well as the rigged explosives in his apartment.
‘‘What we’re seeing here is evidence of some calculation and deliberation,’’ Oates added.
Inside the apartment, FBI Special agent James Yacone said bomb technicians neutralized what he called a ‘‘hypergolic mixture’’ and an improvised explosive device containing an unknown substance. There also were multiple containers of accelerants.
‘‘It was an extremely dangerous environment,’’ Yacone said at a news conference, noting that anyone who walked in would have sustained ‘‘significant injuries’’ or been killed.
By late Saturday afternoon, all hazards had been removed from the Holmes’ apartment and residents in surrounding buildings were allowed to return home, police said.
The exception was Holmes’ apartment building, where authorities were still collecting evidence. Inside the apartment, authorities covered the windows with black plastic to prevent onlookers from seeing in. Before they did, a man in an ATF T-shirt could be seen measuring a poster on a closet that advertised a DVD called ‘‘Soldiers of Misfortune.’’ The poster showed several figures in various positions playing paintball, some wearing masks.
About 8 p.m. Saturday, police left the apartment building carrying a laptop computer and a hard drive.
While authorities continued to refuse to discuss a possible motive for one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history, details about Holmes’ background as a student and would-be scientist trickled out.
Holmes had recently withdrawn from a competitive graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was one of six students at the school to get National Institutes of Health grant money. He recently took an intense three-part, oral exam that marks the end of the first year of the four-year program there, but university officials would not say if he passed, citing privacy concerns. The university said Holmes gave no reason for his withdrawal, a decision he made in June.
He must have failed. That can be the only reason to withdraw.
‘‘The focus of the program is on training outstanding neuroscientists and academicians who will make significant contributions to neurobiology,’’ the university said. The doctoral program usually takes five to seven years to complete, it said.
In a resume posted on Monster.com, Holmes listed himself as an ‘‘aspiring scientist’’ and said he was looking for a job as a laboratory technician.
Related: Lab-based scientists find getting job tough
The resume, first obtained in Holmes’ home state of California by The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, paints a picture of a brilliant young man brimming with potential: He worked as a summer intern at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla in 2006 and mapped the neurons of Zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while an undergraduate at the University of California, Riverside.
He also worked as a cabin counselor to underprivileged children at a summer camp in Los Angeles in 2008.
Possible sex abuser?
In a statement, Camp Max Straus confirmed Holmes had worked there for eight weeks. The camp provided no other detail about Holmes but said such counselors are generally responsible for the care and guidance of roughly 10 children.
A Jewish camp?
Neighbors and former classmates in California said although Holmes was whip-smart, he was a loner who said little and was easily forgotten — until this week.
Mary Muscari, a criminology professor at Regis University in Denver who studies mass killings, said she was not surprised Holmes was studying neuroscience and mental disorders.
‘‘It could be he was interested in that because he knows there’s something different in him,’’ she said.
Holmes was in solitary confinement for his protection at a Denver-area county detention facility, held without bond on suspicion of multiple counts of first-degree murder. He was set for an initial hearing on Monday and has been appointed a public defender.
Among the deceased victims was a 6-year-old girl and a man who died on his 27th birthday and a day before his wedding anniversary. Families grieved and waited at hospitals, which reported at least seven still in critical condition Saturday and others with injuries that likely are permanent.
Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6, had gone to the movies with her mother, who was drifting in and out of consciousness in a hospital intensive care unit, bullets lodged in her throat and a gunshot wound to her abdomen.
‘‘Nobody can tell her about it,’’ Annie Dalton said of her niece, Ashley Moser. ‘‘She is in critical condition, but all she’s asking about is her daughter.’’
Veronica had just started swimming lessons on Tuesday, Dalton said.
‘‘She was excited about life as she should be. She’s a 6-year-old girl,’’ her great aunt said.
Another victim, 27-year-old Matt McQuinn, was killed after diving in front of his girlfriend and her older brother to shield them from the gunfire, said his family’s attorney, Rob Scott of Dayton, Ohio.
Alex Sullivan had planned a weekend of fun, first ringing in his 27th birthday with friends at the special midnight showing of ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’ and then celebrating his first wedding anniversary on Sunday.
‘‘He was a very, very good young man,’’ said Sullivan’s uncle, Joe Loewenguth. ‘‘He always had a smile, always made you laugh. He had a little bit of comic in him.’’
President Barack Obama, who called in his weekly radio address for prayer and reflection on the rampage, was scheduled to travel to Colorado on Sunday to visit with the families of victims.
During the attack early Friday, Holmes used the military-style semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and a pistol to open fire on the unsuspecting theater-goers, Oates. Holmes had bought the weapons at local gun stores within the past two months. He recently purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the Internet, the chief said.
Holmes also bought an urban assault vest, two magazine holders and a knife for just over $300 on July 2 from an online supplier of tactical gear for police and military personnel, according to the company.
Chad Weinman, CEO of TacticalGear.com, said his company processes thousands of orders each day, and there was nothing unusual in the one that Holmes placed.
‘‘Everything Mr. Holmes purchased on July 2 is commercially available,’’ Weinman said, adding he was ‘‘appalled’’ that the material was sold to Holmes before the shooting.
The Batman movie, the last in the trilogy starring Christian Bale, opened worldwide Friday with midnight showings in the U.S. ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’ earned $30.6 million in Friday morning midnight screenings and according to industry estimates roughly $75 million on that day. That put it on track for a weekend total of around $165 million, which would be the second-highest opening weekend ever, following ‘‘The Avengers.’’
It won't be getting my dollar.
The shooting was the worst in the U.S. since the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood, Texas. An Army psychiatrist was charged with killing 13 soldiers and civilians and wounding more than two dozen others.
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"Maybe it’s worth having a discussion about an entertainment culture that excels at selling violent power fantasies to people who feel powerless."
That's Hollywood!
Also see: Mass. couple recall scene at theater
Local moviegoers head to theaters despite Colo. shooting
Colorado shooting shakes up, but doesn’t deter Batman fans in Boston
How to talk to children about the Colo. movie theater shooting
Among 12 people killed, at least two died heroically
Wake up, Capitol Hill
Editorial: If gun laws are off the table, what is plan B?
"Despite violence, push for tougher gun laws flagging" by David Espo and Nancy Benac | Associated Press, July 22, 2012
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates sputter at their faltering efforts. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And President Obama’s White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 people in a mass shooting at a screening of the new Batman.
Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms.
Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that’s grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of an Arizona congresswoman, and now the shootings in Aurora, Colo.
Suspicions are raised regarding all those events.
See: Seung-Hui Cho Was a Mind Controlled Assassin
Taking Shots in Arizona
‘‘We don’t want sympathy. We want action,’’ Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said Friday as Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney mourned the dead.
Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, was more emphatic than many in the early hours after the shootings. ‘‘Everyone is scared of the NRA,’’ he said on MSNBC. ‘‘Number one, there are some things worth losing for in politics, and to be able to prevent carnage like this is worth losing for.’’
Yet it has been over a decade since gun control advocates had a realistic hope of getting the type of legislation they seek....
In terms of electoral politics, Harry Wilson, a Roanoke College professor and author of a book on gun politics, said violent crime has been declining in recent years and, ‘‘It becomes increasingly difficult to make the argument that we need stricter gun control laws.’’
Please, don't bother us with facts.
Additionally, he said in some regions, gun control ‘‘can be a winning issue for Democrats. But nationally, it’s a loser . . . and they have figured that out.’’
In the current election cycle, the NRA has made 88 percent of its political donations to Republicans, and 12 percent to Democrats, according to OpenSecrets.org. The disparity obscures that the NRA consistently supports some Democrats, a strategy that allows it to retain influence in both parties.
It's the banking/AIPAC strategy.
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Also see:
Police investigate death of pilot who stole passenger plane
Autistic man survives ordeal in desert
When they making a movie about those?
UPDATES:
"Suspected Colo. shooter to have hearing on Monday" by Gillian Flaccus and Nicholas Riccardi | Associated Press, July 22, 2012
AURORA, Colo. — The suspect in the Colorado shooting rampage displayed behavior that a gun range owner thought was ‘‘bizarre,’’ but it is still unclear if anyone at the university where he studied had any hint of his plans.
This whole thing is becoming bizarre.
Police said James Holmes began buying guns at Denver-area stores nearly two months before Friday’s shooting. He also received at least 50 packages in four months at his home and the University of Colorado that authorities are investigating to see whether they contained materials for the potentially deadly booby traps that police found in his apartment.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
At the same time, the quiet 24-year-old was in the final weeks of the first year of a rigorous Ph.D. neuroscience program, where he took a three-part final exam required for students to progress in the program and was scheduled to give a presentation on MicroRNA Biomarkers before abruptly leaving in June.
Holmes is being held without bond on suspicion of multiple counts of first-degree murder after a shooting rampage minutes into a premiere of ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’ in Aurora early Friday that left 12 people dead and 58 injured.
He is scheduled for an initial hearing Monday and has been assigned a public defender.
Amid the continuing investigation of Holmes and his background, Sunday was a day for healing and remembrance in Aurora, with President Barack Obama arriving to visit with families of the victims and a vigil planned later in the evening.
Related:
"For a president nearing the end of his term and seeking a second one, it was another grim occasion for him to serve as national consoler in chief, a role that has become a crucial facet of the job. National tragedies can present an opportunity for presidents to show leadership and rise above partisan politics, as with President Bill Clinton and the Oklahoma City bombing and President George W. Bush and the Sept. 11 attacks."
Which makes what happened in Colorado all that more suspicious. That agenda-pushing paragraph is downright cryptic and scary.
Congregations across Colorado prayed for the shooting victims and their relatives. Churches sent out social-media appeals for neighbors who wanted to join in remembrance.
Elderly churchgoers at an aging Presbyterian church within walking distance near Holmes’ apartment joined in prayer, though none had ever met him.
Holmes was being held in solitary confinement at a Denver-area county detention facility and was not talking to authorities, Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said.
‘‘He lawyered up. He’s not talking to us,’’ the chief said.
Authorities are working with FBI behavioral analysts and are looking into Holmes’ relationships to figure out a motive, which could take months, Oates said.
That's how long it is going to take to clean it up and create a cover story?
The gunman’s semiautomatic assault rifle jammed during the attack at the Aurora movie theater, forcing him to switch to another gun with less firepower, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. That malfunction and weapons switch during the shooting rampage might have saved some lives.
Oates said a 100-round ammunition drum was found in the theater but said he did not know whether it jammed or emptied.
The owner of a gun range told the AP that Holmes applied to join the club last month but never became a member because of his behavior and a ‘‘bizarre’’ message on his voice mail.
He emailed an application to join the Lead Valley Range in Byers on June 25 in which he said he was not a user of illegal drugs or a convicted felon, said owner Glenn Rotkovich. When Rotkovich called to invite him to a mandatory orientation the following week, he said he heard a message on Holmes’ voice mail that was ‘‘bizarre — guttural, freakish at best.’’
He left two other messages but eventually told his staff to watch out for Holmes at the July 1 orientation and not to accept him into the club, Rotkovich said.
Three days after the massacre, it still remained unclear whether Holmes’ professors and other students at his 35-student Ph.D. program noticed anything unusual about his behavior. His reasons for quitting the program in June, just a year into the five- to seven-year program, also remained a mystery.
Especially when he was a top-notch student at the top of the class. Who got to this kid, and what happened to him?
The university declined to release any details of his academic record, citing privacy concerns, and at least two dozen professors and other staff declined to speak with the AP. Some said they were instructed not to talk publicly about Holmes in a blanket email sent to university employees.
This REALLY IS GETTING BIZARRE!
Jacque Montgomery, a spokeswoman for the University of Colorado medical school, said that police have told the school to not talk about Holmes.
The university also took down the website for its graduate neuroscience program on Saturday.
WTF?
Dan Keeney, president of DPK Public Relations in Dallas, said asking for silence from university employees because of a police investigation was appropriate, but taking down the website was ‘‘indefensible’’ for a publicly funded university unless the school believed it contained inaccurate information relating to the suspect.
‘‘It’s an indefensible action,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s disappointing to hear that they would take that action because it suggests that it’s not in the public’s interest to have access to that information and I think it is in the public’s interest.’’
The school took down the neuroscience department’s site at the request of faculty and staff who had privacy concerns, Montgomery said.
The University of Colorado also disclosed it was cooperating with police who were looking into whether Holmes used his position as a graduate student to order materials in the potentially deadly booby traps that police said they found in his apartment....
Among the dead was a 6-year-old girl and a man who died on his 27th birthday and a day before his wedding anniversary. Families grieved and waited at hospitals, with police reporting 11 people still in critical condition as of Saturday.
While authorities continued to refuse to discuss a possible motive for one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent US history, details about Holmes’ background as a student and would-be scientist trickled out.
He had recently withdrawn from the competitive graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was one of six pre-thesis Ph.D. students at its Neuroscience Program to be funded by a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The program of 35 students is dedicated to training outstanding neuroscientists and academicians who will make significant contributions to neurobiology, the university said in a statement.
In the first year of the five- to seven-year program, students take classes and complete three, three-month research rotations in the labs of different professors.
Professors who worked with him either did not return calls or declined to comment, saying police and university officials had told them not to speak to the media.
At one point in the year, Holmes was engaged in research about RNA and was to present a paper May 8 about RNA Biomarkers, according to a class schedule. It was unclear if he presented the paper.
Holmes recently took an intense, three-part oral exam that marks the end of the first year. Those who do well continue with their studies and shift to full-time research, while those who don’t do well meet with advisers and discuss their options, including retaking the exam.
It's looking more and more like tis guy f***ed up the exam. Whether that led to his actions at the theater is impossible to say.
University officials would not say if he passed, citing privacy concerns.
The university said Holmes gave no reason for his withdrawal, a decision he made in June.
Holmes was not allowed access from the institution after his withdrawal, which was ‘‘standard operating procedure’’ because he was no longer affiliated with the school, Montgomery said. Holmes had no contact with university police, she said.
A resume posted on Monster.com paints a picture of a brilliant young man brimming with potential: He worked as a summer intern at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla in 2006 and mapped the neurons of Zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while an undergraduate at the University of California, Riverside.
Ritchie Duong, a friend who has known Holmes for more than a decade, told the Los Angeles Times that in high school he liked to play cards and video games. They both attended undergraduate school at the University of California, Riverside, where they saw each other once a week to watch the TV show ‘‘Lost.’’
Oooooooh, he was one of those!
Duong last saw Holmes in December when they met for dinner in Los Angeles and saw a movie together. His friend seemed fine, he told the newspaper.
That's more than a little ironic and quite chilling.
Academics came easily to Holmes both at high school and at the UC Riverside, Duong said.
‘‘I had one college class with him, and he didn’t even have to take notes or anything. He would just show up to class, sit there, and around test time he would always get an ‘A,'’’ said Duong, 24.
And yet he f***ed up his graduate school presentation?
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Next Day Updates:
"There were also clues as to how Holmes might have paid for the weapons and other materials he acquired. He was receiving a $26,000 stipend, in monthly installments of $2,166, for a National Institutes of Health neuroscience training grant for the graduate program he was enrolled in at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, a spokeswoman said."
That's not a whole hell of a lot a month, when he quit he al$o gave up the $tipend$, so WTF?
Looks like the Amerikan media has the answer to all our questions:
"Colorado gunman amassed arsenal unhindered; Net purchase of 6,000 rounds, gear unchecked" by Jack Healy | New York Times, July 23, 2012
DENVER —A purchase that would have been restricted under proposed legislation that has been stalled in Washington for more than a year....
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
New details began to emerge of his activities in the weeks leading up to the rampage. They sketch a picture of man once captivated by the science of the human mind growing increasingly interested in weapons and how to use them....
Tom Mauser, a gun-control advocate in Colorado whose son was killed in the 1999 Columbine shootings. ‘‘The Internet has really changed things. You don’t have to show your face. It’s anything goes.’’
Some top law-enforcement officers were among those calling for more restrictions on ammunition sales.
CUT:
"I have an issue with people being able to buy ammunition and weapons on the Internet," Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey of the Philadelphia police said on the ABC program "This Week" on Sunday. "I don't know why people need to have assault weapons. There needs to be reasonable gun control in place."
Then the power-has-gone-to-their-heads police will be the only ones with assault weapons.
"And we talk about this constantly, and absolutely nothing happens, because many of our legislators, unfortunately, at the federal level, lack the courage to do anything."
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And I've seen this movie before:
"The images of the Aurora rampage have also revived the emotional scars for survivors of the 1999 Columbine massacre. Columbine students who survived the 1999 school massacre are reliving their own experiences. And they’re banding together to try to help. On Facebook and by phone, they are reaching out to people who witnessed Friday’s early-morning slayings of 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora....
‘‘To me, he was and is an inhuman object that I don’t associate with as a human being.’’
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Not to defend the alleged killer (honestly, we don't know what really happened), but the demonization detour has begun:
"Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado, a Democrat, said a gun control debate is certain to follow the shooting in Aurora, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But you look at this person — almost a creature — if he couldn’t have gotten access to the guns, what kind of bomb would he have manufactured? I mean, we’re in a time, an information age where there’s access to all kinds of information.”
Related: Colo. shooting suspect makes first court appearance
And the timing is a bit odd, isn't it?
"In a church service attended by the royal family in Oslo’s cathedral, vicar Elisabeth Thorsen urged congregants to also remember the victims of violence in other parts of the world, including Syria and the United States, an apparent reference to the massacre Friday that killed 12 moviegoers in Aurora, Colo."
Also see: ‘Dark Knight Rises’ draws crowds despite Colo. shootings
I won't be seeing it for many reasons.
More ‘Dark Knight Rises’ premieres canceled
Maine man admits bringing gun to Batman movie
WTF?
