A lone gunman went on a real-life rampage at a midnight showing of the “The Dark Knight Rises” outside of Denver Friday, killing 12 people and wounding up to 50 others.
A 24-year-old suspect, identified as James Holmes, was in custody. A SWAT team had surrounded his apartment building in North Aurora after he told cops it was packed with explosives, police said.
The gunman burst into the theater through an emergency door minutes after the movie started, released a canister that might have emitted tear gas and opened fire, authorities said.
We “heard loud noises and [saw] smoke and thought, ‘This is a joke. This is fireworks,’” theatergoer Megan Walton told the Daily News.
Ten people were found dead at the scene. Two died at local hospitals.
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