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2012 Theatre Aurora shooting
Century 16 at Town Center at Aurora
Bottom left: Map of Colorado with Aurora marked Top: Map of central Aurora Bottom right: Town Center at Aurora and the location of the Century 16 multiplex
Location	14300 E. Alameda Avenue Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
Coordinates	39°42′21″N 104°49′14″W / 39.7059°N 104.8206°W / 39.7059; -104.8206
Date	July 20, 2012 12:38 a.m. (MDT) (UTC–06:00)
Attack type	Mass murder
Weapons	Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifle Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun 2 .40-caliber Glock handguns
Deaths	12
Injured	58

On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. The sole suspect is James Eagan Holmes, who was arrested outside the cinema minutes later.

Attack

The attack occurred in theater 9 at the Century 16 multiplex (operated by Cinemark), located at the Town Center at Aurora shopping mall at 14300 E. Alameda Avenue. Police said the shooter bought a ticket, entered the theater, and sat in the front row; about 20 minutes into the film, he left the building through an emergency exit door, which he propped open.

He then went to his car, which was parked near the exit door, changed into protective clothing, and retrieved his guns. About a half hour into the film, police say, around 12:38 am, he re-entered the theater through the exit door. He was dressed in black and wore a gas mask, a load-bearing vest, a ballistic helmet, bullet-resistant leggings, a throat protector, a groin protector and tactical gloves. Initially, few in the audience considered the masked figure a threat. He appeared to be wearing a costume, like other audience members who had dressed up for the screening. Some believed that the gunman was playing a prank, while others thought that he was part of a special effects installation set up for the film's premiere as a publicity stunt by the studio or theater management.

The gunman threw a canister emitting a gas or smoke, partially obscuring the audience members' vision, making their throats and skin itch, and causing eye irritation. He then fired a 12-gauge Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun, first at the ceiling and then at the audience. He also fired a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle with a 100-round drum magazine, which malfunctioned after reportedly firing fewer than 30 rounds. Finally, he fired a .40-caliber Glock 22 handgun. He shot first to the back of the room, and then toward people in the aisles. Some bullets passed through the wall and hit people in the adjacent theater 8, which was screening the same movie. Witnesses said the multiplex's fire alarm system began sounding soon after the attack began and staff told people in theater 8 to evacuate. One witness said that she was hesitant to leave because someone yelled that there was someone shooting in the lobby and that they shouldn't leave.

The first phone calls to emergency services via 9-1-1 were made at 12:39 a.m. Police arrived within 90 seconds and found at least three .40-caliber magazines, a shotgun and a large drum magazine on the floor. Some people reported the shooting via tweets or text messaging rather than calling the police.

About 12:45 a.m., police apprehended Holmes behind the movie theater, next to his car, without resistance. According to two federal officials, he had dyed his hair red and called himself "the Joker", although authorities later declined to confirm this. He had orange hair in his first court appearance three days later. The officers found several firearms in the theater and inside the car, including a .40-caliber Glock 23. Following his arrest, he was initially jailed at Arapahoe County Detention Center, under suicide watch. The police interviewed more than 200 witnesses after the attack. Investigators say that the shooter acted alone and was not part of a larger group or terrorist organization.

Victims

Seventy people were shot or otherwise wounded, the most victims of any mass shooting in United States history and the deadliest shooting in Colorado since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Ten people died at the scene and two died in local hospitals. Those killed were: Jonathan Blunk, age 24; Alexander J. Boik, 18; Jesse Childress, 29; Gordon Cowden, 51; Jessica Ghawi, 24; John Larimer, 27; Matt McQuinn, 27; Micayla Medek, 23; Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6; Alex Sullivan, 27; Alexander C. Teves, 24; and Rebecca Wingo, 32. The youngest shooting victim was three months old. Ashley Moser, Veronica Moser-Sullivan's mother, was critically injured in the shooting, and had a miscarriage a week after the attack.

The injured were treated at Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, The Medical Center of Aurora, Parker Adventist Hospital, Rose Medical Center, Swedish Hospital, and University Hospital, as well as at a makeshift hospital set up at the scene of the attack. On July 25, three of the five hospitals treating victims announced they would limit or eliminate medical bills. The public and Warner Bros. have contributed nearly $2 million to help victims.

Suspect

The sole suspect is James Eagan Holmes, who was raised in San Diego, California, and was aged 24 at the time of the shooting.

Court proceedings

Judge Sylvester has placed a gag order on lawyers and law enforcement, sealing the court file and barring the University of Colorado from releasing public records relating to the year Holmes attended the school. Media organizations are challenging the sealing of the court file.

Explosive devices in suspect's apartment

When apprehended, Holmes told the police that he had booby-trapped his apartment with explosive devices before heading to the movie theater. Police then evacuated five buildings surrounding his Aurora residence, about 5 miles (8 km) north of the cinema. The apartment complex is limited to University of Colorado Medical Center students, patients, and employees. One day after the shooting, officials disarmed an explosive device wired to the apartment's front entrance, allowing a remotely controlled robot to enter and disable other explosives. The apartment held more than 30 homemade grenades, wired to a control box in the kitchen, and 10 gallons of gasoline. Neighbors reported loud music from the apartment around midnight on the night of the massacre. A law enforcement official said that a Batman mask was found inside the apartment. On July 23, police finished collecting evidence from the apartment. Two days later residents were allowed back in.

Responses to the attack

Government

The evening after the shooting, a candlelight vigil was held at the site in Colorado. President Barack Obama ordered flags at government buildings flown at half-staff, in tribute to the victims, until July 25. Both Obama's and Mitt Romney's campaigns temporarily suspended television advertising in Colorado for the upcoming presidential election. On July 22, President Obama met with victims and local and state officials and gave a nationally televised speech from Aurora. Many world leaders sent their condolences in the wake of the shooting, including Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, French President Francois Hollande, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope Benedict XVI.

Entertainment industry

Warner Bros., the distributor of The Dark Knight Rises, stated that it was deeply saddened by the shooting. The studio canceled the film's gala premieres in Paris, Mexico, and Japan, scaled down its marketing campaign in Finland, and decided not to report box office figures for the movie until July 23. Some television advertisements for the film were also canceled. Other major film studios joined Warner Bros. in withholding early box office numbers on July 21. It was reported that Warner Bros. would be making a "substantial" donation to Colorado's Community First Foundation to benefit victims of the shooting.

Christopher Nolan, the film's director, spoke on behalf of his cast and crew and called the event "savage" and "devastating." Christian Bale, who plays Batman in the film series, and his wife privately visited victims on July 24.

Warner Bros. instructed cinemas to stop showing a trailer for the film Gangster Squad, which preceded The Dark Knight Rises screenings in some cities, though not in Aurora, because it contained a scene involving the main characters shooting at a movie theater audience with Thompson machine-guns. A later decision was made to cut or rework the scene, leading to the film's release date being rescheduled to 2013.

In the wake of the shooting, DC Comics delayed the release of Batman Incorporated #3, which featured a scene showing a female Leviathan agent brandishing a handgun at a classroom full of children while disguised as a schoolteacher. Additionally, it was announced that Warner Brothers Animation and Cartoon Network would edit the content in the upcoming Beware the Batman animated series in order to make the firearms in the show look less realistic.

Hans Zimmer, who composed the soundtrack for The Dark Knight Rises, recorded a choral song entitled "Aurora" in honor of the victims.

Theaters

The theater owners said they were willing to pay any funeral expenses incurred by the deceased victims families not covered by the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund.

Soon after the shooting, police departments and cinemas across the United States and around the world increased security for fear of copycat incidents. In New York City, police officers were deployed to theaters showing the new film. In Paris, the premiere event on the Champs-Élysées was canceled and the red carpet was removed.

The National Association of Theater Owners distributed checklists from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to its members, and said in a July 21 statement that members were "working closely with local law enforcement agencies and reviewing security procedures." AMC Theatres announced that it would "not allow any guests into our theatres in costumes that make other guests feel uncomfortable and we will not permit face-covering masks or fake weapons inside our buildings." Security Director News raised the possibility in a July 23 article that "the massacre could be a Virginia Tech for movie theaters, causing security to become a bigger part of the conversation and more stringent security procedures to be adopted at theaters across the country."

Related incidents

Immediately after the attack, people around the U.S. were arrested for threats and suspicious activities that referenced the Aurora attack, at movie theaters or workplaces, including incidents in New York, Arizona, Maine, Maryland and Southern California. In a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., a heavily armed man was suspected of having made several bomb and shooting threats to his workplace, referring to the Aurora suspect's statement, by saying he was "The Joker".

Sale of guns and gun control debate

The number of background checks for people seeking to purchase a firearm increased to 2,887 in Colorado after the shooting, up 43% from the previous week. The shooting has reignited the national debate on gun control, with one issue being the unrestricted availability of "assault weapons and high-capacity magazines", which were banned federally from 1994 to 2004. The results of a survey conducted among 1,010 adults by Pew Research Center suggest that Americans did not change their views on the issue due to the incident.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

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External links

Maps of crime scene

• Map of theater, suspect's apartment and hospitals - larger version via Google
• Map of theater, suspect's apartment, and hospitals at The Denver Post
• Map of crime scene at The New York Times

Raw audio

• Aurora Fire Department raw audio, July 20, 2012
• Aurora Police Department raw audio, July 20, 2012

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