12 Dead in Colorado Shooting
By: NBC News
Updated: July 20, 2012
Update (8:00 a.m.):
Police said earlier today that 14 had died but have revised that number to 12.
Original story (4:50 a.m.):
14 people are dead and at least 50 are hurt after a shooting at a movie theater during the midnight showing of the new Batman film "Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.
According to officers, a man suspected of carrying out the attack was taken into custody.
The heavily armed suspect, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was apprehended by police in a parking lot at the theater. That's according to a police spokesman.
The identity of the suspect has not immediately been released.
Of the wounded, at least 20 were being treated at the University of Colorado Hospital, said spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery. All of the wounded suffered from gunshot wounds, which ranged from minor to critical, she said.
Stay with KARK and ArkansasMatters.com for more on the shooting throughout the day.
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Police said earlier today that 14 had died but have revised that number to 12.
Original story (4:50 a.m.):
14 people are dead and at least 50 are hurt after a shooting at a movie theater during the midnight showing of the new Batman film "Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.
According to officers, a man suspected of carrying out the attack was taken into custody.
The heavily armed suspect, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was apprehended by police in a parking lot at the theater. That's according to a police spokesman.
The identity of the suspect has not immediately been released.
Of the wounded, at least 20 were being treated at the University of Colorado Hospital, said spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery. All of the wounded suffered from gunshot wounds, which ranged from minor to critical, she said.
Stay with KARK and ArkansasMatters.com for more on the shooting throughout the day.
Related Stories:
Officials Name Alleged Gunman in Colorado Theater Shooting
Colorado Shooting Survivor: 'He pointed the gun right at me'
Comments
yeah and his lawyers will say he has a history of mental illness and he forgot to take his medication and he needs help not incarceration, i say him out behind the jail and shot him in both knees and elbows and then just watch him flop around on the pavement in pain and then throw him im jail without medical attention
lloyd b.
July 20, 2012 at 10:52 am
