Mass Shooting at Theater In Denver Area (Dark Knight)

[Ben E Lou]

At least 10 dead, at least 39 injured.

[Ben E Lou]

At least 10 killed after shooting during 'Dark Knight' screening in Colorado - U.S. News

[Ben E Lou]

Death count up to 14.

[stevew]

Wow...crazy

[EagleFan]

That's just insane. Some people really suck.

[Peregrine]

Unbelievable.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

what is it with colorado?

[Eaglesfan27]

That is horrible

[RainMaker]

Guy had 3 guns, bulletproof vest, and tear gas apparently. Fucked up people.

[Easy Mac]

How did he get in there with that gear on? Maybe this will end the idiocy of people dressing up in costume for movies.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

apparently he kicked open the emergency exit door dressed like a swat team member

[Easy Mac]

How do you kick open an emergency door? They open out. Ive worked at plenty of theaters, those things are near impossible to open from the outside unless it's left open.

[Young Drachma]

Theatres aren't especially well designed to get out of these days in a scenario like this with stadium seating either. I don't to go Aurora for much of anything ever, but it does seem like everything about it was planned for a particular purpose.

So sad.

[Kodos]

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

How do you kick open an emergency door? They open out. Ive worked at plenty of theaters, those things are near impossible to open from the outside unless it's left open.

Hard to say. At least one witness has said that he left the theater through that emergency door and then came back.

[Young Drachma]

Aurora: Several dead outside 'The Dark Knight Rises' (with images, tweets) · allaboutgeorge · Storify

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Hard to say. At least one witness has said that he left the theater through that emergency door and then came back.

also said he was using the smoke to drive people towards the exit (him) which i don't understand either

[Young Drachma]

A 24-year man was taken into custody, but not all of the outlets are reporting on this for whatever reason.

Probably the best local source for news on this at the moment:

http://www.9news.com/news/article/27...eater-shooting

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

cnn says they have him

[RedKingGold]

Shooter identified as James Holmes, 24 years old, white male, pretty clean criminal record thus far, no connections to terrorism reported as of yet.

[Edward64]

Crazy. These guys should just write a goodbye note and kill themselves.

[spleen1015]

WTF is wrong with people?

[wade moore]

Sad, very sad.

I'm usually a very rational person, but I can't say that I won't have a twinge of anxiety next time I'm in a movie theater.

[bronconick]

The guy didn't have the decency to turn the gun on himself? Assbag.

[Young Drachma]

@NorahODonnell
CBS News' Orr reports suspect’s apartment “booby-trapped” and police can see what looks like “buckets of extra ammunition”

[rowech]

Originally Posted by bronconick

The guy didn't have the decency to turn the gun on himself? Assbag.

Am I the only one thinking he's trying (tried) to model the Batman movie(s)?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by rowech

Am I the only one thinking he's trying (tried) to model the Batman movie(s)?

Seems that way.

[wade moore]

This is where my bad memory fails me.

Did this happen in a batman movie? If so, how has the media not picked up on that yet?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by wade moore

This is where my bad memory fails me.

Did this happen in a batman movie? If so, how has the media not picked up on that yet?

Yes, midnight showing of The Dark Knight. They've mentioned it in every article, but haven't begun theorizing yet and are still (seemingly) in fact-finding mode. So that's why those connections haven't been pieced together yet. But I imagine it'll happen here before too long unless they get more detail on his thinking or whatever.

Nevermind the reddit link.

A sports radio guy in Denver posted about his friend, a girl who was working at a Denver as a sports journalist who got killed and it was really eerie because her twitter feed was literally updated 20 minutes before the show waiting for it and then...that was it.

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Yes, midnight showing of The Dark Knight. They've mentioned it in every article, but haven't begun theorizing yet and are still (seemingly) in fact-finding mode. So that's why those connections haven't been pieced together yet. But I imagine it'll happen here before too long unless they get more detail on his thinking or whatever.

Side note, one of the wounded victims posted on reddit: i am one of the 50 wounded in the aurora theatre shooting. here are a few photos of my very lucky but nonethless terrifying brush with death. my thoughts go out to those less fortunate than me. : WTF

A sports radio guy in Denver posted about his friend, a girl who was working at a Denver as a sports journalist who got killed and it was really eerie because her twitter feed was literally updated 20 minutes before the show waiting for it and then...that was it.

Sorry, I should be more clear.

Did someone go on a killing spree in a theatre in one of the batman movies?

Someone was saying they were imitating a batman movie, but I don't remember a scene like that unless we're talking about the Joker in the bank in the first Dark Knight?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by wade moore

Sorry, I should be more clear.

Did someone go on a killing spree in a theatre in one of the batman movies?

Someone was saying they were imitating a batman movie, but I don't remember a scene like that unless we're talking about the Joker in the bank in the first Dark Knight?

He walked into a theatre that was getting ready to screen the last Batman movie from the exit door presumably, threw in tear gas, shot in the air once and then starting shooting randomly at people. This is from witness accounts from the Denver TV station's links that I posted above.

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by bronconick

The guy didn't have the decency to turn the gun on himself? Assbag.

He committed suicide. It's just going to take time to get there.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

He walked into a theatre that was getting ready to screen the last Batman movie from the exit door presumably, threw in tear gas, shot in the air once and then starting shooting randomly at people. This is from witness accounts from the Denver TV station's links that I posted above.

We all get that, the question was "was he imitating a scene that occurred in one of the movies"?

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by rowech

Am I the only one thinking he's trying (tried) to model the Batman movie(s)?

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Seems that way.

Originally Posted by wade moore

Sorry, I should be more clear.

Did someone go on a killing spree in a theatre in one of the batman movies?

Someone was saying they were imitating a batman movie, but I don't remember a scene like that unless we're talking about the Joker in the bank in the first Dark Knight?

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

He walked into a theatre that was getting ready to screen the last Batman movie from the exit door presumably, threw in tear gas, shot in the air once and then starting shooting randomly at people. This is from witness accounts from the Denver TV station's links that I posted above.

You're killing me DC - I think you're awake too early .

See the stuff above.

"Am I the only one thinking he's trying (tried) to model the Batman movie(s)?"

I'm trying to figure out how this models a batman movie. Seems like a stretch of logic to me, but I may be missing a connection.

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

We all get that, the question was "was he imitating a scene that occurred in one of the movies"?

Not that I recall. Sometimes, crazy is just crazy.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

We all get that, the question was "was he imitating a scene that occurred in one of the movies"?

Unless he'd seen a pre-release of the film or was in the other screening that was going on prior to this one...that seems extremely unlikely.

More like a bit of freelancing on his part.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by rowech

Am I the only one thinking he's trying (tried) to model the Batman movie(s)?

No and I suspect we'll get some of that over the next week: "He's just like Gotham's villains trying to show that when you idolize crazy vigilantes, you get crazier villains." Except, it's not even close to the case. Guy was a nut and off his rocker. And not much we could have done to prevent this one short of making every movie theater a TSA zone. So let's make some building code changes for the better so that escapes are easier and mourn for the victims.

{sarcasm}I'm confident in our media's ability to not blow this completely out of proportion and miss the point.{/sarcasm}

SI

[Matthean]

He could have come in unequipped, went out the exit door, had the door oh so slightly ajar, got his stuff, and come back in.

[Young Drachma]

Comprehensive timeline: Aurora Massacre : news

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Originally Posted by rowech

Am I the only one thinking he's trying (tried) to model the Batman movie(s)?

who knows. first thing i thought of was 'fight club' and how it's become 'the catcher in the rye' for young men adrift in the 21st century.

[jeff061]

Good to know we all have something ficitonal to blame.

[Shkspr]

Guy's in his 20's...do you think he could have ever played a videogame?

[Lathum]

Tragic.

One thing I have to ask myself it WTF is a 6 year old, 9 year old and 3 month old doing there. Seems a lot of really young kids there.

Regardless, tragic and senseless.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by jeff061

Good to know we all have something ficitonal to blame.

Originally Posted by Shkspr

Guy's in his 20's...do you think he could have ever played a videogame?

In the wods of Chris Rock

What happened to just crazy?

[Ksyrup]

1:42: "All ten people in the theater are black." Fatalities.


Yikes, I hope this doesn't turn into a racial thing. I don't know if that's a function of where the theater was/who frequents it, or the reason he chose the theater or victims.

I did hear a witness interview where the guy talked about how he thought the theater was unsafe and didn't like going there. But he didn't explain why.

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Lathum

In the wods of Chris Rock

What happened to just crazy?

Oh come on, I bet all of these killers breathe air. I guess we better stop breathing so we can prevent more killer from happening.

[BillJasper]

My wife and daughter went to the release last night here in Newport. Just thankful it didn't happen here.

Hope guy gets to go to general population for a while...

[Logan]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

1:42: "All ten people in the theater are black." Fatalities.


Yikes, I hope this doesn't turn into a racial thing. I don't know if that's a function of where the theater was/who frequents it, or the reason he chose the theater or victims.

I did hear a witness interview where the guy talked about how he thought the theater was unsafe and didn't like going there. But he didn't explain why.

Where's that quote from? Also, one of the victims was a pretty redheaded girl (the aspiring sportswriter referenced earlier).

[Subby]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

1:42: "All ten people in the theater are black." Fatalities.

Yikes, I hope this doesn't turn into a racial thing. I don't know if that's a function of where the theater was/who frequents it, or the reason he chose the theater or victims.

I did hear a witness interview where the guy talked about how he thought the theater was unsafe and didn't like going there. But he didn't explain why.

Looking at some of the video there were plenty of white folks streaming out of the theater. Deadspin features an article about one of the victims (young female) and a redditor (white male) posted a picture of himself in the hospital with a gunshot wound.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

A fraternity brother and good friend of mine is an Aurora, CO firefighter. He responded to the scene shortly after it happened. I'm sure he'll be a bit shaken up over the whole thing.