It was the deadliest shooting in Colorado since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Twelve people were killed and 70 others were injured, 58 of them from gunfire. Dressed in tactical clothing, James Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms.
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On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises.
In another, he grabbed her rear and midsection after she refused to return a cellphone he said was his. In one instance, Colell said Long used his fingers to mimic shooting her in the back of the head as she talked to another athlete. Long made others feel uncomfortable going back to his teens.ĭominique Colell, who coached girls' track and field at the high school where Long was a sprinter, remembers an angry young man who could be verbally and physically combative. Several people who knew Long in the suburb of Thousand Oaks where the gunman went to high school and eventually moved back in with his mother described him in disturbing terms. As scores of police officers closed in, Long apparently shot and killed himself. None of those injured was hurt by gunfire. Instagram and Facebook typically refuse to discuss individual accounts and did not respond to a request for comment.Īuthorities described an attack of military efficiency. Kuredjian said he didn't know the content of any posts. Garo Kuredjian, said that - based on time stamps - the gunman apparently stopped shooting inside the bar and posted to Instagram. READ | California gunman was volatile but passed mental assessmentĪ second law enforcement official, Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Authorities also were investigating whether he believed his former girlfriend would be at the Borderline Bar and Grill, said the official, who was briefed on the investigation but not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.