Shooting at TDKR Midnight Premiere in Aurora, CO. Multiple dead.

[Priest31kc]

At least 10 moviegoers were killed and 39 injured at a cinema in the Colorado city of Aurora in the Denver suburbs. They were attending a midnight showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.

The theater was packed with a lot of people, many of them young fans, at the time the shooting started, 9news reports. The violence erupted some 15 minutes after the movie started, witnesses said.

Some say that when they first heard the shooting, they thought it was some new type of special effect.

Local media reports that two gunmen were involved in the rampage. An explosive device was set off during the shooting, injuring several people.

Witnesses said the gunmen were probably wearing body armor and gas masks and used some kind of a tear gas bomb in the attack.

Some reports say police have apprehended one of the assailants while the second one is still at large.

Police have cleared people from the scene over fears that another explosive device might be on the premises.

Aurora medical services were alerted to attend to the large number of injured

http://www.rt.com/news/shooting-dark...er-aurora-654/

WOW

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

They were at a midnight premier of his movie.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was referring to the hospital staff and other people there in response to GC asking "how many people lost their shit when he walked into the room".

[Easy 6]

How cool is Christian Bale.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by frazod

Seriously? He's pretty much the biggest star on the planet right now.

Okay this made me feel dumb so I looked up his biography to see what I've seen him in. Only one I've seen is 3:10 to Yuma. Oddly enough I have my dvr set to record American Psycho.
I'm not a real big movie/TMZ kind of guy.

Regardless, him showing up was a VERY cool thing to do.

[The Franchise]

Did he yell at the lighting guy while he was at the hospital?


Seriously though.....awesome thing to do.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Colorado laid back aint got nothing on Florida laid back.

Other than 90% less southern inbreds.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Colorado laid back aint got nothing on Florida laid back.

Speaking of which...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/25...age-mailed-to/

AURORA, Colo. – James Holmes, the accused gunman in last Friday's midnight movie massacre in Colorado, mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, but the parcel sat unopened in a mailroom for as long as a week before its discovery Monday, a law enforcement source told FoxNews.com.

Police and FBI agents were called to the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus in Aurora on Monday morning after the psychiatrist, who is also a professor at the school, reported receiving a package believed to be from the suspect. Although that package turned out to be from someone else and harmless, a search of the Campus Services' mailroom turned up another package sent to the psychiatrist with Holmes’ name in the return address, the source told FoxNews.com.

A second law enforcement source said authorities got a warrant from a county judge and took the package away Monday night. When it was opened, its chilling contents were revealed.

“There were drawings of what he was going to do in it--drawings and illustrations of the massacre."

- Law enorcement source

“Inside the package was a notebook full of details about how he was going to kill people,” the source told FoxNews.com. “There were drawings of what he was going to do in it -- drawings and illustrations of the massacre."

Among the images shown in the spiral-bound notebook’s pages were gun-wielding stick figures blowing away other stick figures.

The source said the package had been in the mailroom since July 12, though another source who confirmed the discovery to FoxNews.com could not say if the package arrived prior to Friday's massacre. It was not clear why it had not been delivered to the psychiatrist. The notebook is now in possession of the FBI, sources told FoxNews.com.

Both sources said the intended recipient of Holmes’ notebook was a professor who also treated patients at the psychiatry outpatient facility, located in Building 500, where the first suspicious package was delivered. It could not be verified that the psychiatrist had had previous contact with Holmes, who was a dropout from the school’s neuroscience doctoral program and had studied various mental health issues and ailments as part of his curriculum.

Holmes is accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 at a midnight showing of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Century 16 Theater in Aurora.

University of Colorado spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said she was not aware of the contents of the package or who had sent it.

Agent Dave Joly, of the FBI’s Denver Division, declined to comment on the matter, citing a gag order issued Monday by Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester. Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers' office and Aurora police also could not comment due to the gag order.

Police believe the July 20 attack was meticulously planned. Holmes allegedly tossed tear gas canisters into the crowded theater, and then fired his 12-gauge shotgun at the ceiling before turning it on the crowd. As panicked movie watchers raced for the exits, he switched to a .40 Glock pistol and a .223 Smith & Wesson M&P semi-automatic with a high-capacity drum clip, sources told Fox News. The gun jammed, likely preventing far more deaths.

After the gun jammed, Holmes allegedly walked out of the theater through the door he'd entered and was removing his body armor beside his car when he was confronted by the officers who took him down, the source said, adding that the gunman seemed surprised authorities arrived so quickly.

Before mounting the horrific attack, Holmes allegedly booby-trapped his apartment and left music blasting, possibly to create a diversion that would occupy police and rescue personnel several miles away from the theater, the source said.

Fox News has learned that the door was wired with a booby-trap and a backup system that would have triggered an explosive designed to "cut in half" the first person through the door. After that, explosions and flames would have likely consumed the entire building, presumably with the intention of trapping other residents as they slept and forcing a massive response of police and rescue personnel.

Holmes, who made his first court appearance Monday and looked disoriented and disheveled, could face the death penalty.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/25...#ixzz21eXw8RJl

Originally Posted by vailpass

Okay this made me feel dumb so I looked up his biography to see what I've seen him in. Only one I've seen is 3:10 to Yuma. Oddly enough I have my dvr set to record American Psycho.
I'm not a real big movie/TMZ kind of guy.

Regardless, him showing up was a VERY cool thing to do.

I had no idea either. I don't get worked up about any of that Hollywood crap.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by scott free

How cool is Christian Bale.

I had always heard he was kind of a douche in years past. Of course, that could all be horse shit. Could be just a normal, decent guy with a temper. Sounds like myself actually...

[Pants]

Originally Posted by lcarus

I had always heard he was kind of a douche in years past. Of course, that could all be horse shit. Could be just a normal, decent guy with a temper. Sounds like myself actually...

He's just an ultimate pro. He takes his job very, very seriously.

[Huffmeister]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Okay this made me feel dumb so I looked up his biography to see what I've seen him in. Only one I've seen is 3:10 to Yuma. Oddly enough I have my dvr set to record American Psycho.

Be sure to check out Empire of the Sun, too. It's a WWII movie about a wealthy British kid (Bale) living in China who gets separated from his parents when the Japanese invade China. Bale, who was only 13, puts in a phenomenal performance. Probably Spielberg's most underrated movie.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Huffmeister

Be sure to check out Empire of the Sun, too. It's a WWII movie about a wealthy British kid (Bale) living in China who gets separated from his parents when the Japanese invade China. Bale, who was only 13, puts in a phenomenal performance. Probably Spielberg's most underrated movie.

He was 13, I didn't know that. He looked 9.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Huffmeister

Be sure to check out Empire of the Sun, too. It's a WWII movie about a wealthy British kid (Bale) living in China who gets separated from his parents when the Japanese invade China. Bale, who was only 13, puts in a phenomenal performance. Probably Spielberg's most underrated movie.

Thanks for the recommendation. I just added it to my Amazon Prime watchlist.

[Iowanian]

"P-51...cadillac of the Skies"

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Huffmeister

Be sure to check out Empire of the Sun, too. It's a WWII movie about a wealthy British kid (Bale) living in China who gets separated from his parents when the Japanese invade China. Bale, who was only 13, puts in a phenomenal performance. Probably Spielberg's most underrated movie.

Also Equilibrium and The Prestige.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by frazod

Also Equilibrium and The Prestige.

Prestige is good as hell, IMO, but I thought Equilibrium was complete garb.