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Faine GreenwoodJuly 20, 2012 11:41
PHOTOS: Aurora theater shooting caught on camera by social media users
Photos and video of Aurora Batman theater shooting posted to social media sites by victims and witnesses
Photos and video of Aurora Batman theater shooting posted to social media sites by victims and witnesses
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The Century 16 Theatre where a masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. A masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a teargas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers. (Reuters/Courtesy)
Aurora movie theater shooting witnesses used Twitter, Reddit and Youtube to share photos of the police reaction to the rampage allegedly carried out by 24-year-old James Holmes that left 12 dead - and the aftermath.
One victim, present at the "The Dark Knight Rises" premiere, posted photos of his injuries on Reddit early today, drawing hundreds of sympathetic comments. Another witness used Youtube to post chilling mobile footage of the shootings, as embedded below.
Sportscaster Jessica Ghawi, who was killed at the theater, was Tweeting immediately before her death. She expressed excitement about "Dark Knight," and lamented that it wouldn't start for 20 more minutes. And then her feed went dead.
Ghawi had narrowly escaped a Toronto mall shooting early last month, and wrote about it with disturbing prescience on her blog.
Others on the scene posted photos - and commentary - to the microblogging website:
On scene at #TheaterShooting in Aurora. Tons of emg vehicles. twitter.com/BrandonRittima…
— Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) July 20, 2012
First Pics: Police officers took witness statements outside a movie theater in Aurora. #Theatershooting #batman #Denver twitter.com/ibnlive/status…
— CNN-IBN News (@ibnlive) July 20, 2012
Proving how life can change in an instant - #theatershooting victim #JessicaRedfield's final 4 tweets twitter.com/stevechenevey/…
— Steve Chenevey (@stevechenevey) July 20, 2012
Tragic night in Aurora. 14 dead in #TheaterShooting. This pic helps show how chaotic: twitter.com/BrandonRittima…
— Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) July 20, 2012
Denver Bomb squad on scene too #theatershooting twitter.com/jacelarson/sta…
— Jace Larson, 9NEWS (@jacelarson) July 20, 2012
PHOTO outside #Century16 right after mass shooting at #DarkKnight in Aurora twitter.com/7NewsMorning/s…
— 7NewsMorningKMGH-TV (@7NewsMorning) July 20, 2012
See GlobalPost's complete coverage of the Aurora shooting
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/120720/photos-aurora-theater-shooting-caught-camera-soc
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