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By Sari Horwitz and Debbi Wilgoren,
A heavily armed gunman clad all in black kicked in an emergency door at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., early Friday, hurled two canisters of an unknown gas and opened fire on the stunned audience, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens of others, including children, who were watching the midnight premiere of a new Batman film.
Witnesses told police that the shooter, who wore a flak jacket and a gas mask, at first fired a handgun in the air, then leveled his weapons on people in the darkened theater, who initially thought his entrance was somehow associated with the movie, The Dark Knight Rises.
The gunman looked calm and said nothing as he walked up an aisle, firing as he went, witnesses said.
Law enforcement authorities identified the alleged gunman as James Holmes, 24, and said he was taken into custody in a parking lot behind the Century 16 theater after the attack.
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(47,953 posts)Law enforcement authorities identified the alleged gunman as James Holmes, 24, and said he was taken into custody in a parking lot behind the Century 16 theater after the attack. Police quickly converged on Holmess apartment, in a modest section of Aurora about five miles away, after he indicated there were explosives there.
The building was evacuated sometime after 2 a.m., and authorities said police teams determined that Holmess apartment, No. 10., was booby-trapped and not safe to enter.
A neighbor of Holmess said she and other residents were instructed by police to get dressed and evacuate immediately. The police did not explain the reason or mention the mass theatre shooting, but asked whether residents of the small apartment building had heard any noises coming from apartment No. 10.