AURORA, Colo. >> A gunman
wearing a gas mask and black SWAT gear hurled a gas canister inside a
crowded movie theater during a midnight showing of the new Batman movie
and then opened fire, killing 12 people and wounding nearly 60 others
in an attack so bizarre that some moviegoers at first thought they were
watching Hollywood special effects.
As smoke from the canister
spread, audience members watching "The Dark Knight Rises" at the
suburban Denver theater saw the silhouette of a person materialize near
the screen, point a gun at the crowd and begin shooting, apparently
without a word.
It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history.
The suspected gunman,
identified as James Holmes, a 24-year-old doctoral student in
neuroscience who was about to drop out of the University of
Colorado-Denver, was arrested near a car behind the theater.
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