Shooting in a Colorado Theatre - Friday July 20,2012

Twelve people are dead and up to 50 injured in a Denver suburb(Aurora) after a masked gunman opened fire at a late-night screening of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.Witnesses said the gunman was wearing a gas mask and had released a smoke or teargas bomb before the shooting started.
A full list of the dead is expected to be released by police later on Saturday July 21,2012.

Aurora police chief said Holmes, clad in black protective gear including a military-style helmet, ballistic vest, and black mask and gloves, had entered through a door at the front of the theater.

 

 James Holmes was a brilliant science scholar in college

James Eagen Holmes who was apprehended as a suspect on Friday  July 20,2012 for the shooting in Aurora, Colorado which left 12 dead and almost 60 injured, was an excellent student with no crime record. From the well-tended San Diego enclave of two-story homes, neighbours recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words. The son of a nurse, Arlene, and a software company manager, Robert, James Holmes was a brilliant science scholar in college. 

Colorado suspect planned attack for months

The shooting suspect who went on a deadly rampage inside a Colorado theatre planned the attack with “calculation and deliberation,” police said on Saturday July 21,2012.

Authorities on Saturday removed dangerous explosive materials from inside James Holmes’ suburban Denver apartment, a day after police said he opened fire and set off gas canisters in a suburban theatre minutes into the premiere of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.

 

Obama meets relatives of theatre shooting victims

US President Barack Obama today described the shooting in a Colorado theatre this week that claimed 12 lives as an “act of evil”, as he visited Aurora — the city of tragic incident — to meet the victims’ families.

“I come to them not so much as President as I do as a father and as a husband,”
The President paid visit — one by one — to families gathered at a hospital and wounded patients recovering in intensive care. He appeared before the TV cameras and kept his focus on the lives of the victims and the survivors, not the sole shooting suspect or his “evil act”.