miércoles, 25 de julio de 2012

12 dead, 58 injured in Colorado theatre Massacre Holmes Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises

A heavily armed, masked gunman opened fire in a packed Colorado movie theatre during a midnight screening of the new Batman movie, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. Investigators are now trying to dismantle sophisticated explosives found in the suspect's apartment rigged with booby traps, apparently intended to harm officers arriving on the scene. The mass shooting took place Friday at the Century 16 Theatre in Aurora, Colorado, about 16 kilometres outside of Denver. Movie-goers had just settled into their seats to watch the latest installment in the Batman movie franchise, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' when a gunman released a canister of some type of noxious gas and began firing into the crowd around 12:30 am Ten people were killed on the scene and two others died in hospital. Dozens of others, including children, were taken to area hospitals with varying injuries, but not all of them were shot, police said. Several remain in critical condition. "Every few seconds it was just boom, boom, boom," witness Jennifer Seeger said. "He would reload and shoot and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed." "There were bullet holes in some people's backs, in some people's arms," Donovan Tate told a local news station. Police have identified the suspect as 24-year-old James Holmes, who was arrested behind the theatre without incident. Holmes was studying neuroscience at the University of Colorado-Denver until he dropped out of the PhD program about a month ago <b>...</b>
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