Religious gun nut kills Batman moviegoers

[Rum]

Breaking news...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18921492

Gun attack at Batman film premiere in Denver

Many casualties have been reported after a shooting at a Batman film premiere in the US city of Denver.

Police said 30 to 40 people had been injured in the incident, Colorado state's 850 KOA radio reported.

A reporter for the 9News website at the scene says a gunman opened fire at the movie cinema complex in Aurora, where three theatres had a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises.

Witnesses said someone wearing a gas mask opened fire.

There were also reports of a lot of smoke.

Reuters news agency quoted a local reporter saying 10 people had died, but this is unconfirmed.

The Swedish Medical Center, which is not the area's main hospital, told the BBC it had received three gunshot victims.

Many ambulances are at the scene and it not clear if there is an active manhunt for the shooter.

NBC News reports that one suspect was in custody.

A witness told 9News that during a shooting scene in the film he heard loud bangs and a lot of smoke and initially thought they were live special effects put on by the cinema.

Projectiles came through the wall from the neighbouring theatre screening, where it appears the shooting occurred.

[klr]

The report is now saying there are ten dead.

[JimC]

Oh shit...

[Animavore]

Wow! NO time wasted in turning a tragedy into a gun-ownership flame war.

[JimC]

Wow! NO time wasted in turning a tragedy into a gun-ownership flame war.

Well, apart from the thread title, it hasn't happened yet...

But I won't hold my breath...

[Animavore]

The title is an invitation. It gives no clue to the story either.

[Clinton Huxley]

14 confirmed dead now, 50 injured.

[Animavore]

According to local reports the gunman carried out the shooting because the new Batman movie was sold out.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z219mLIom9
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l?ITO=1490

Fandom gone too far?

[Tero]

Don't go to movies or concerts in america, rent, get on line viewing.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Don't go to movies or concerts in america, rent, get on line viewing.

Never been shot at going to a movie...

...in America.

[Elessarina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18921492

At least 14 people have been killed in a shooting at a Batman film premiere in the US city of Denver, police say.

About 50 people have been injured in the incident at the cinema complex in the suburb of Aurora.

Witnesses say a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises.

A 24-year-old man was arrested in a car park nearby in possession of a rifle and handgun. He told police that explosives were stored at his home.

Police chief Dan Oates told reporters that an apartment block in the north of Aurora had been evacuated as a consequence of that information.

More weapons may have been left in the cinema, he said.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Subject line makes more sense.

[Atheist-Lite]

Thinking about violence can and does get people killed. Wait for it to come out on bluray/DVD...?

[Rum]

No confirmation of deaths when I posted the OP.

Apologies for the insensitivity in the event.

[maiforpeace]

Getting a live view of the outside of the apartment where the gunman and lived and supposedly reported there are explosives.

If the shooter is in custody, is there a reason why they needed to smash through an outside window, with a lift, three stories high, instead of simply going through the front door?