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July 21st, 2012 
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She said: “He [the killer] was heading towards my daughter. Had I not moved I
don’t know what would have happened to her. It was horrible, so scary. A
pain went through my ankle and up my leg.”
Her partner, Jamie Rohrs, 25, jumped 20ft from a balcony with Ethan in his
arms. He said: “I thought he was going to shoot the baby so I just jumped
over the side. There were gunshots flashing to my right and people were
falling, it was like a dream.”
Holmes, who dropped out of a neuroscience PhD at the University of Colorado
School of Medicine last month, shot 71 people, including at least one person
in an adjacent cinema who was hit as the bullets penetrated the walls.
The 250-seater cinema was packed with families and high school students.
When Holmes was arrested outside the cinema, he told police: “I’m The Joker.”
Ray Kelly, the commissioner of New York police, who was kept updated by his
colleagues in Colorado, said: “It clearly looks like a deranged individual.
He had his hair painted red, he said he was The Joker, obviously the enemy
of Batman.”
Police are trying to ascertain whether Holmes was acting out one of the
anarchic, bloody attacks carried out by The Joker in Batman films and
comics. In one Dark Knight comic, The Joker kills an entire late-night
television audience with gas. In the same comic, a deranged loner carries
out a mass shooting in an adult movie cinema and the Batman video game,
Arkham City, is set in an abandoned cinema.
Some witnesses also said the gunman burst into the cinema during a scene in
which members of the public are killed during an attack on Gotham City’s
stock exchange.
Holmes, who is originally from San Diego, California, told police he had left
explosives at his flat five miles away. Bomb disposal experts, who went in
through a window, found a booby trap consisting of a “very sophisticated”
system of fluid-filled bottles and tripwires rigged to explode if the front
door was opened.
Holmes’s parents, Arlene and Robert, released a statement saying: “Our hearts
go out to those who were involved in this tragedy”, but offering no clues as
to why their son had carried out the attack.
Holmes had no criminal convictions apart from a speeding offence last year and
is not thought to have been affiliated to any terrorist groups.
One report suggested that he is an extremist anti-capitalist protester who may
have attacked the audience because of the film’s predicted £1 billion box
office takings, or because he was unhappy with its negative portrayal of
protests against big business.
John Hickenlooper, the Colorado governor, said the shootings were “the act of
an apparently very deranged mind”. Although Holmes believed himself to be
The Joker, a character from a previous Batman film, some witnesses at first
believed he had come dressed as Bane, the villain of The Dark Knight Rises,
played by Tom Hardy. Holmes was wearing black body armour, a gas mask and
helmet, like Bane.
After seeing the gunman burst into the cinema via an emergency exit, many
cinema-goers thought he was a prankster acting out a scene from the film.
The fact that many Batman fans had come in fancy dress only added to the
confusion.
Paul Otermat, who was in the auditorium, said: “Front right there was an
emergency exit and a man walked through there … I thought it was some sort
of publicity stunt for a second.
“He threw tear gas over the crowd and as soon as he threw it I could feel it
in my eye.” Miss Seeger added: “It was mass chaos. He threw in the gas can,
and then I knew it was real.”
Sitting in the second row, Miss Seeger was among the first to be picked out by
Holmes, who aimed his gun at her face.
“I was just a deer in headlights. I didn’t know what to do,” she said. She
ducked as Holmes shot people sitting behind her. “There were bullet
[casings] just falling on my head,” she said.
“I told my friend, ‘We’ve got to get out of here,’ but then he shot people
trying to go out the exits.”
She said she began crawling towards an exit when she saw a girl aged about 14
“lying lifeless on the stairs”. She saw a man with a bullet wound in his
back and tried to check his pulse, but “I had to go. I was going to get
shot”.
The 6ft 3ins gunman, armed with a Remington pump action shotgun, an AR15
assault rifle and two Glock handguns, made his way up the aisle, shooting as
he went, saying nothing.
Miss Ghawi, who was with her friend, Brent Lowak, was among those who ducked
down behind the seats to take cover. Weeks earlier she had escaped another
mass shooting, in which a man was killed and seven injured in a shopping
mall in Toronto on June 2.
Describing what happened to her, her brother Jordan wrote on his blog that her
friend had tried to dial 911, but “Brent then heard Jessica scream and
noticed that she was struck by a round in the leg”. As he tried to put
pressure on the wound and keep her calm, he, too, was shot, in the leg, and
then “noticed that Jessica was no longer screaming”. She had been shot in
the head. Nearby, Chandler Brannon, 25, escaped by playing dead.
He said: “Me and my girlfriend ducked down behind the chairs with a lot of
other people … we stayed down behind the chairs because we were afraid to
get up and we played dead.
“We could hear screaming and chairs being broken around us so we just figured
we would stay down. There were about 50 to 75 gunshots, we were playing dead
for about 45 seconds or a minute. After that was over someone said he was
gone. I helped a guy down the stairs and one guy had been shot in the head.
It was just crazy.”
Among the injured was a four-month-old baby, who was well enough to be allowed
home from hospital yesterday, and children aged as young as six.
“I saw one girl covered in blood,” said Alex Milano. “I don’t know whose
little girl that was, but my heart goes out to them. A cop came walking
through the front door … holding a little girl in his arms and she wasn’t
moving.”
Tanner Coon, who was in the cinema with a friend and the friend’s 12-year-old
brother, said the gunman fired off a volley of rounds, then there was a
pause and a “period of quietness when everybody started running out”.
He said: “I slipped on some blood and landed on a lady. I shook her and said
we need to go. There was no response so I presume she was dead.”
Other witnesses reported seeing Holmes begin the shooting spree with his
shotgun, and once it was empty he calmly dropped it to the floor, grabbed a
rifle strapped to his back and went on firing, then later used the pistols.
He began building up his arsenal in May, buying his guns legally from two
shops. Mobile phone footage taken in the cinema lobby showed survivors, many
of them in bloodstained clothes, screaming and crying as they fled.
As police officers arriving on the scene they used their patrol cars to ferry
the injured to hospitals. Holmes offered no resistance as he was arrested
next to his Hyundai car in the car park.
The Aurora police chief, Dan Oates, said Holmes talked about “possible
explosives in his residence”. When police got to his third-floor flat they
removed the window and found the booby trap Holmes had left for them.
“His apartment is booby-trapped with various incendiary and chemical devices
and tripwires,” he said, adding that it may take days to defuse the devices.
The massacre was the worst mass shooting in the US since the 2007 Virginia
Tech campus killing, in which 32 people died. Just 13 miles from the cinema
is Columbine High School, where two students killed 12 classmates and a
teacher in 1999.
Holmes began his neuroscience course in June last year, but dropped out last
month, without giving a reason. When he began renting his flat, he described
himself on the application as “quiet and easy-going”.
Aurora is home to a large satellite intelligence operation at Buckley Air
Force Base and the Pentagon confirmed members of the US armed forces were
among those injured.
In the UK, where the film opened with early morning screenings yesterday
co-ordinated with its midnight release in the US, the Odeon cinema chain
said it was stepping up security, including bag checks, at its premises. In
Paris the film’s French premiere, which had been due to take place last
night, was cancelled. The cast, including the British-born star, Christian
Bale, pulled out of publicity interviews immediately.
President Barack Obama said he was saddened by the “horrific and tragic”
shooting and he cut short electoral campaigning to return to the White
House, where he faced inevitable calls for a tightening of gun laws.
Tributes were last night paid to Miss Ghawi, who was trying to get a career in
television. Jesse Spector, the friend she had been tweeting moments before
the shooting, said: “Words are useless. Guns more so. If you ever had any
interaction with Jessica, you know the world is much worse off without her.”
After escaping the Toronto shooting on June 2, Miss Ghawi had written of: “An
odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm’s way.
It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from
being in the middle of a deadly shooting.
“I say all the time that every moment we have to live our life is a blessing.
Every hug from a family member. Every laugh we share with friends. Even the
times of solitude are all blessings. Every second of every day is a gift.”
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