Thread: Another Massacre in Colorado

Gunman in black entered, opened fire

Posted: 07/20/2012 05:42:50 AM MDT
Updated: 07/20/2012 06:21:57 AM MDT

By Kurtis A. Lee
The Denver Post

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AURORA — James Wilburn was sitting in the second row of Theater 9 after midnight, when the emergency door to his right opened and a man entered.


"He was dressed in black," Wilburn said, "Wearing a flack jacket and a gas mask."


The man was carrying a shotgun and had a rifle strapped to his back, Wilburn said. Then the man dropped a canister to the floor and a noxious gas spewed out. He raised the shotgun and repeatedly fired toward the back of the theater.


Wilburn and three friends dove to the floor, hiding behind the seatbacks in front of them. The gunman was only five or six feet away, the Aurora resident said. Everyone was running while the movie, which had only started a few minutes before, played on.


Once the shotgun was empty, the gunman calmly dropped it to the floor, took the rifle and went on firing. Wilburn heard 30-some shots.


Meanwhile, 21-year-old Naya Thompson and her 22-year-old boyfriend Derrick Poage were running for their lives.


She said the gas spread and the gunman may have dropped two canisters. "It was like a tear gas," Thompson said. "I was coughing and choking and I couldn't breathe."


Hours afterward, Poage had blood splashed on his pants. He was in his stocking feet because he had lost his shoes as he fled the theater.




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Police Release Name Of Aurora Mass Shooting Suspect

Man Suspected In Mass Shooting During Showing Of Movie 'The Dark Knight Rises'

July 20, 2012 6:22 AM

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AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A man is under arrest after the mass shooting in Aurora that took place during a showing of the movie ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’


CBS News confirmed the man’s name is James Holmes, 24. Police are conducting an extensive search at the apartment that’s believed to be his. The apartment is located near the intersection of Peoria and 17th. Officers are using surveillance cameras and a fire engine ladder to look inside the window of the apartment, located on third floor.


CBS News reports that the apartment appears to be booby trapped and contains “buckets of ammunition.”
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The FBI has joined local police in the investigation. Aurora police said officers from agencies across the Denver metro area have been assisting them with the investigation.
The police presence includes SWAT Teams and bomb disposal units.

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Aurora Shooting Latest In A Long Line Of U.S. Mass Shootings

July 20, 2012 6:21 AM

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AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – The mass shooting in Aurora Friday is among the country’s worst. The following are some of the other major shootings in recent history.


July 20, 2012: 12 killed, 50 wounded in mass shooting at movie theater in Aurora.


January 8, 2011: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, 18 other people were shot during a public meeting near Tucson, Ariz. 6 die.


Nov. 5, 2009: 13 killed, 30 wounded in a shooting rampage at its Fort Hood base in Texas.


April 3, 2009: Man opens fire at immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and 2 workers, then himself.


Feb. 14, 2008: Former student opens fire at Northern Illinois University, fatally shooting 5 students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.


Dec. 5, 2007: 19-year-old man opens fire with a rifle in Omaha at a store in a mall, killing 8 before taking his own life.



April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.


Feb. 12, 2007: 18-year-old man killed 5, wounded 4 at the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City. He was then shot and killed by police.


Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, shot to death five girls at West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, then killed himself.


March 21, 2005: 16-year-old student Jeffrey Weise killed nine people, including his grandfather and his grandfather’s companion at home, and then five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, before killing himself. Seven students were wounded.


March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann, 44, gunned down members of his congregation as they worshipped at the Brookfield Sheraton in Brookfield, Wisconsin, slaying seven and wounding four before killing himself.


July 29, 1999: Former day trader Mark Barton, 44, killed nine people in shootings at two Atlanta, Georgia, brokerage offices, then committed suicide.


April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before committing suicide in the school’s library.


March 24, 1998: Andrew Golden, 11, and Mitchell Johnson, 13, killed four girls and a teacher at a Jonesboro, Arkansas, middle school. 10 others were wounded in the shooting.


Oct. 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, smashed his pickup truck through a Luby’s Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and fired on the lunchtime crowd with a high-powered pistol, killing 22 people. At least 20 others were wounded.


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Perhaps you should forbind all sort of guns owned by private people. You have the police and other law inforcement to take care of you.

I guess we don't get all of the nut jobs here but we get more than our share. This is just one more sad and horrifying incident and a long line of them nationally.

About 1:00 AM this morning I heard sirens going off around my place like there was a war starting somewhere and they kept up for over an hour. I'm only a block off a very heavily traveled crosstown highway. I was up about an hour ago and as always one of the first things I do is check local news and that's when I found out what the sirens were all about.

One of the major medical trauma centers is just three blocks away from me and the reports say that a number of the victims were brought there even though where I live is a good ten miles from where the shootings took place. Initial reports were 14 dead now they seem to be saying 12 dead but in addition there are over 50 injured some critically so the death toll may rise.

What a sad way to wake to what would otherwise have been a beautiful day. What makes a person tick that they could ever do shit like this. This wasn't some teenage kid who was being harassed and embarrassed by HS classmates like the bastards who shot up Columbine HS. This guy was 24 years old.

They say his apartment may be booby trapped with more bombs or other explosives. How can anyone be so angry at the world to have the desire to take innocent lives this way? Just put a gun to your own head if your in that much pain or get help. Jesus this just makes me sick.

It's a shame people are already blaming the right, the left and hollywood. No mainstream political philosophy condones this, and as George Carlin once said "People were killing each other long before movies; they (movies) just made them more creative.

Originally Posted by ZifanQ

Perhaps you should forbind all sort of guns owned by private people. You have the police and other law inforcement to take care of you.

Do the criminals turn in their guns? Or just the law abiding citizens who will no longer be able to protect themselves?

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

police/law enforcement cannot stop a criminal from owning a gun. Stupidist lib idea ever. Police are reactive and all to often to late to a crime, they cannot take care of you.

This has absolutely ruined my day. I'm livid and saddened for all these people and their family. I'm saddened for his family. This jag did this for nothing other then to try and get his face in the paper. I really wish the news would stop placing the names and faces of the shooters in these instances. If they want to be famous/infamous stop giving them their prize.

So why have them if you gotta defend yourself anyway? Can't you just shoot the guy and if he survives then just have some lawyers to change him for the crime?
But yes it is horrible for the families and for their friends etc.. horrible..

Originally Posted by BearStuff

Do the criminals turn in their guns? Or just the law abiding citizens who will no longer be able to protect themselves?

No but if you can go into a shop and buy a gun no wonder why there's so many shootings in U.S. if you had to "hunt" a guy down to get a gun then it would be a lot harder, and there would be fewer shootings.
This guy have only got pulled over for driving to fast, he was a student and was close to finish his edcuation, now let's say this wasn't planned but just impluse a few days ago or so, then isn't it a bit stupid he can get a gun in a matter of day? Rather than having a hard time looking for a gun in thecriminal environment?

I don't get the hole "protect yourself" mentallity really.. there is NO reason to have police if you just can shoot the guy that are threating you.