Tragedy struck the country as James
Holmes,24, opened fire at a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and wounding
58 others.
“And if there’s
anything to take away from this tragedy it’s the reminder that life is very fragile.
Our time here is limited and it is precious. And what matters at the end
of the day is not the small things, it’s not the trivial things, which so often
consume us and our daily lives. Ultimately, it’s how we choose to treat
one another and how we love one another,” President Obama said.
Holmes fired a AR-15
rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a 40-caliber handgun into a crowded theater after
blinding moviegoers with teargas. Holmes
entered the theater through an emergency door he seemed to prop open earlier
that night.
According to a
federal official, Holmes, now in police custody reported to the police that he
was “The joker”. Mimicking the fictional villain, Holmes died his hair
red. Planning to turn himself in, Holmes
left a second surprise for law enforcement, chemical traps in his apartment.
“He was just
literally just massacring anybody that got up that was trying to run
away," John Seeger, a survivor of the attack said to CNN.
Across the country, the
shooting conjured up memories of other tragedies such as Columbine and Virginia
Tech. In response to the shooting, Warner Brother Studios cancelled the movie’s
premiere in Paris.
With the total count
of 71 people shot, the Aurora shooting is deemed to as the largest mass
shooting in the country. For more on the tragedy, check out CNN’s coverage.
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