Friday, July 20, 2012

Did Holmes have an accomplice ? Did his Handler let him in the theatre ? A witness caught someone letting Holmes in by way of an emergency exit. Saturday update on the shootings at the Batman premiere in Colorado - focus on the gunman. Two questions - do you believe James Holmes possibly acted on his own and did he somehow wind up being some depraved neuroscience experiment by some unknown actor (s) ? Prayers go to those who passed away and those wounded in the horrible shootings at Aurora - however , the idea that James Holmes ( allegedly obtaining 20,000 worth of guns and military type gear while unemployed / the precision and calm method of his hunting down victims / the IEDs and very sophisticated bombs in his apartment - where did he learn to do that by the way - does this add up , does the whole story of holmes make sense ? Mass murder at the new Batman movie premiere in Denver - gunman co-ordinated shooting with shooting scene in the movie. WTF ? ? Liveblogs from the Guardian ( short video from inside the theatre ) and The Telegraph ....


http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/252995/396/Witness-Someone-let-gunman-inside-Colorado-movie-theater-


AURORA, CO -- A man who was at the Colorado movie theater where a dozen people were killed this morning, says he saw the gunman.
He says he thinks someone deliberately let the gunman inside once the movie started.
Here's what he told TV station KCNC this morning live on their newscast.
"As I was sitting down to get my seat, I noticed that a person came up to the front row, the front right, sat down, and as credits were going, it looked like he got a phone call. He went out toward the emergency exit doorway, which I thought was unusual to take a phone call. And it seemed like he probably pried it open, or probably did not let it latch all the way. As soon as the movie started, somebody came in, all black, gas mask, armor, and threw a gas can into the audience, and it went off, and then there were gunshots that took place."





http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_21125630


Mind Manipulation made easy.....


San Jose: 21 people treated for burns after firewalk at Tony Robbins appearance



SAN JOSE -- Amid inspirational talk, chanted mantras and shouts of victory at a late-night firewalking event attended by thousands Thursday came agonized shrieks from followers whose soles were scorched by the superheated coals, witnesses said.
At least 21 people were treated for burn injuries after taking part in the crowning event of the first day of a Tony Robbins function downtown, including at least three who went to the hospital, a San Jose fire captain said.
The people who suffered various second- and third-degree burn injuries were among more than 6,000 who attended the motivational speaker's event at the San Jose Convention Center called "Unleash the Power Within."
After the event, which ended about 11 p.m., the crowd walked across the street to the park, where 12 lanes of hot coals measuring 10 feet long and 2½-feet wide rested on the grass.
Jonathan Correll, 25, decided to check out what was going on when "I heard wails of pain, screams of agony." He said one young woman appeared to be in so much pain "it was horrific."
"It was people seriously hurting, like they were being tortured," he said. "First one person, then a couple minutes later another one, and there was just a line of people walking on that fire. It was just bizarre, man."
Correll, a San Jose City College student, said he saw between 10 and 15 people being treated. He said he videotaped the scene for about 5 minutes before an event staffer
told him to put the camera away.
But on a break from day two of the four-day event Friday night, others who walked on the coals said it was nothing short of life-changing.
Henry Guasch, 19, of Mountain View, said that after crossing the coals while chanting his mantra of "Cool moss," he felt powerful.
"Overcoming something like that, it's a breakthrough," he said, adding that he did slow his pace in the middle of the field and got a minor burn.
Guasch and Andrew Brenner, another fire walker, both said that the keys to not getting singed are faith and concentration.
"I did it before, didn't get into the right state and got burned," Brenner said. "I knew I wasn't at my peak state. I didn't take it as serious."
He said his feet blistered after the walk about eight months ago at another Robbins event, but he didn't need medical attention.
Kim, a 22-year-old who didn't want her last name used because she is still attending the event, said her two friends who did the walk seemed fine at first, but their feet started to blister about 10 minutes later. She said other people had similar problems, and a number of them were soaking their feet in a fountain at the park.
"It seemed abnormal that so many got hurt," she said, adding that many attendees Friday complained about blisters, and a woman sitting near her had both feet completely bandaged.
David Willey, a physics instructor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in Pennsylvania, has published a text and video on the physics of firewalking and stated that it "does not need a particular state of mind."
"Rather, it is the short time of contact and the low thermal capacity and conductivity of the coals that is important," he wrote. He added that ash that builds up on coals can provide further insulation.
It took about 90 minutes for everyone to walk across the coals, fire officials said. It is not known how many of the people who attended the conference took part in the firewalk.
San Jose Fire Department Capt. Reggie Williams said event organizers had emergency personnel on standby and had obtained an open fire permit from the San Jose Fire Department, Williams said. A fire inspector from the department was at the event to make sure there was no accidental fire.
A statement released Friday from Robbins Research International, said, "We have been safely providing this experience for more than three decades, and always under the supervision of medical personnel ... We continue to work with local fire and emergency personnel to ensure this event is always done in the safest way possible."
On the Tony Robbins website, he promotes "The Firewalk Experience," a process where people walk across coals between 1,200 and 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
But that's not something the San Jose Fire Department recommends, Williams said,
"We discourage people from walking over hot coals," Williams said.


and....


http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21127526/aurora-theater-shooting-officials-breach-booby-trapped-apartment



Aurora theater shooting: First trip wire deactivated at apartment


POSTED:   07/21/2012 08:24:03 AM MDT
UPDATED:   07/21/2012 11:14:12 AM MDT
By Kristen Leigh Painter
The Denver Post

Cassidee Carlson of the Aurora Police Department gives a press briefing near the Aurora apartment of theater shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)


Bomb technicians in Aurora have deactivated a trip wire as they work to breach the booby-trapped apartment of theater shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes this morning.




"We have been successful in defeating our first threat," Sgt. Cassidee Carlson of the Aurora Police Department said at midmorning press briefing. "This is some serious stuff they're dealing with."

Gov. John Hickenlooper is at the scene as crews rest before entering the second phase of their operation, which likely will include a controlled detonation. Police would first close off Peoria Street.
The building at 1690 Paris St. has been evacuated since early Friday morning after Holmes was taken into custody following the shooting rampage that left 12 dead and 58 wounded.
Police hope that throughout the day, the apartmentment can be made safe so that the investigation into the shooting can proceed.
Carlson said police are hoping to preserve as much of the scene as possible to aid the investigation.
"We don't want to lose evidential value," she said. "Anything that's in there, we're going to be using as evidence. So we're going to be very cautious with how we deal with things, with how we take things out."
Police plan to keep residents of the area informed with reverse emergency calls and Peoria Street will be closed periodically as needed.

Shortly after taking Holmes into custody early Friday morning, police evacuated his apartment building. When they discovered the traps, they evacuated four adjacent apartment buildings.
Police officers and FBI agents used a firetruck bucket Friday morning to ride to the top floor of the three-story building. They smashed a window with a long pole and then took pictures of the inside of Holmes' apartment.
Aurora Deputy Fire Chief Chris Henderson said they found a number of liter-sized soda bottles filled with an unknown liquid connected with wires inside.



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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18937726



Aurora Batman shootings: Police prepare to enter flat


Colorado police break the window of a flat lived in by Batman shooting suspect (20 July 2012)Police spotted wires and booby-traps when they tried to enter Mr Holmes' flat on Friday

Police in the US state of Colorado are about to make a second attempt to enter the flat of James Holmes, suspected of shooting dead 12 people and injuring 58 at a Batman film screening on Friday.
They spotted booby-traps and wires in an initial reconnaissance of his home.
A man in a gas mask and body armour threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd in Aurora, a suburb of Denver.
Mr Holmes, 24, was arrested outside the cinema, police said.
FBI agents and police discovered his flat was booby-trapped when they used a camera at the end of a 12-foot pole to look inside.
Gases

Cinema shooting suspect

James Holmes
  • James Holmes, 24, was a former neuroscience PhD student at University of Colorado-Denver
  • Attended high school in San Diego, California, where his parents still live
  • He lived in an apartment in north of Aurora, about five miles from the cinema
  • Only previous brush with the law was a summons for speeding in October 2011

Technicians made a first attempt on Friday to disarm the traps, believed to include explosives, but withdrew when it became clear the property was too dangerous to enter.

Federal government experts are due to arrive on Saturday for a second attempt.
Aurora police chief Dan Oates said the apartment contained "things that look like mortar rounds", adding: "I've personally never seen anything like what we've found in there."
Residents were evacuated from the building and four other premises nearby.
Firefighters are monitoring the block of flats for gases in an effort to identify what chemicals might have been used in the booby-traps.
Hundreds of mourners joined a vigil near the cinema in Aurora on Friday night, leaving candles and flowers outside.
James Holmes was said to be armed with a rifle, a shotgun and two pistols when he launched his assault on the midnight screening of the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises.
He also bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet, Mr Oates said.
Motive unknown

All weapons and ammunition were purchased legally within the past few months, he said.
Thirty people remained in hospital, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper said, with 11 of those in a critical condition.
Authorities have established no terrorism link, nor any motive, and Mr Holmes had no criminal record other than a speeding fine.
He will appear at Arapahoe County District Court, in nearby Centennial, Colorado, on Monday at 09:30 local time (15:30 GMT).

( why hasn't anyone questioned the bomb making skills or where / how he obtained the explosives and related materials for these sophisticated bombs ? ) 






http://www.naturalnews.com/036536_James_Holmes_shooting_false_flag.html


( Does James Holmes really fit the profile - and how did he afford all of the guns / bombs and other exotic gear - 20,000 bucks worth , while unemployed ? )

(NaturalNews) James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado shooter who reportedly opened fire at a Batman movie premiere, was a medical student at the University of Colorado, pursuing a PhD in neuroscience, reports ABC News. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shooting-colorado-movie-theater-14-peop...)

As part of the attack, Holmes painted his hair red and referred to himself as "The Joker," one of the arch enemies in the DC Comics-inspired Batman movie series. (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/20/police-14-dead-in-colorado-the...)

According to news reports, this sudden violent rampage was completely out of character for James Holmes, who was described as "shy."

The New York Times is now reporting:
Billy Kromka, a pre-med student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, worked with Mr. Holmes for three months last summer as a research assistant in a lab of at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Mr. Kromka said he was surprised to learn Mr. Holmes was the shooting suspect. "It was just shocking, because there was no way I thought he could have the capacity to do commit an atrocity like this," he said. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/us/colorado-mall-shooting.html?page...)

"He spent much of his time immersed in the computer, often participating in role-playing online games..."

There is already conjecture that James Holmes may have been involved in mind-altering neuroscience research and ended up becoming involved at a depth he never anticipated. His actions clearly show a strange detachment from reality, indicating he was not in his right mind. That can only typically be accomplished through drugs, hypnosis or trauma (and sometimes all three).

His behavior doesn't add up

His behavior already reveals stark inconsistencies that question the mainstream explanation of events. For example, he opened fire on innocent people but then calmly surrendered to police without resistance. This is not consistent with the idea of "killing everyone."

Furthermore, he then admitted to police that his apartment was booby-trapped with explosives. If you were really an evil-minded Joker trying to kill people (including cops), why would you warn them about the booby trap in advance? It doesn't add up.

"Holmes was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, police said, adding he didn't resist when he was arrested," reports a local CBS news affiliate (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/20/police-14-dead-in-colorado-the...).

"After his arrest, Holmes told police about 'possible explosives in his residence,' Oates said. When police searched his apartment, they discovered it was booby-trapped and evacuated surrounding buildings, police said. Oates said bomb technicians are determining how to disarm flammable or explosive material in the third-floor apartment. He said police could be there some time."

None of this checks out. If you're a killer bent on causing mayhem, why tell the police about your surprise bomb waiting for them back at your apartment?

Holmes was clearly provided with exotic gear

Continuing from CBS:

"He said pictures from inside the apartment are fairly disturbing and the devices look to be sophisticated, adding the booby-traps were 'something I've never seen.' One rifle, two handguns, a knife, a bullet proof vest, a ballistic helmet, a gas device, a gas mask, military SWAT clothing and unidentified explosives were also found in Holmes' car, a law enforcement source told CBS News. Oates said Holmes wore a gas mask, a ballistic helmet and vest as well as leg, groin and throat protectors during the shooting."

In other words, this guy was equipped with exotic gear by someone with connections to military equipment. SWAT clothing, explosives, complex booby-traps... c'mon, this isn't a "lone gunman." This is somebody who was selected for a mission, given equipment to carry it out, then somehow brainwashed into getting it done.

"Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said Holmes' apartment is booby-trapped with a 'sophisticated' maze of flammable devices. It could take hours or days for authorities to disarm it," reports Yahoo News (http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-neuroscience-phd-stu...).

This is not your run-of-the-mill crime of passion. It was a carefully planned, heavily funded and technically advanced attack. Who might be behind all this? The FBI, of course, which has a long history of setting up and staging similar attacks, then stopping them right before they happen. See four documented stories on these facts:

http://www.naturalnews.com/035849_domestic_terror_plots_FBI.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/034325_FBI_entrapment_terror_plots.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/033751_FBI_terrorism.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035757_FBI_terror_plots_false_flag.html

As you soak all this in, remember that the FBI had admitted to setting up terror plots, providing the weapons and gear, staging the location of the bombings and even driving the vehicles to pull it off! This is not a conspiracy theory, it's been admitted by the FBI right out in the open. Even the New York Times openly reports all this in stories like this one:

NYT: Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-help...)

THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years -- or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts. But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. ...the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving...

Mystery man Holmes has no background

On top of all this, Holmes apparently has no background. "He's not on anybody's radar screen -- nothing," said a peace officer in a NYT article. "This guy is somewhat of an enigma. Nobody knows anything about him." (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/us/colorado-mall-shooting.html)

Mr. Holmes's only criminal history is a traffic summons, the authorities said. He earned a bachelor's degree with honors in neuroscience in 2010 from the University of California, Riverside, and was a graduate student in neurosciences at the University of Colorado at Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus... He was currently collecting unemployment...

Question: How does an unemployed medical student afford $20,000 in weapons gear?

If you start to look at the really big picture here, the obvious question arises: How does an unemployed medical student afford all the complex weapons gear, bomb-making gear, "flammable" booby trap devices, ammunition, multiple magazines, bullet-proof vest, groin protection, ballistic helmet, SWAT uniform and all the rest of it?

A decent AR-15 rifle costs $1,000 or more all by itself. The shotgun and handgun might run another $800 total. Spare mags, sights, slings, and so on will run you at least another $1,000 across three firearms. The bullet-proof vest is easily another $800, and the cost of the bomb-making gear is anybody's guess. With all the specialty body gear, ammunition, booby-trap devices and more, I'm guessing this is at least $20,000 in weapons and tactical gear, much of which is very difficult for civilians to get in the first place.

The mere manufacture of an explosive booby-trap device is, all by itself, a felony crime by the way. And remember: "Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said Holmes' apartment is booby-trapped with a 'sophisticated' maze of flammable devices. It could take hours or days for authorities to disarm it," reported Yahoo News (http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-neuroscience-phd-stu...).

Question: Where does an unemployed, introverted medical school student get the training to deploy sophisticated booby traps, tactical body armor, weapons systems and more? Certainly not in graduate school!

All this leads to an obvious third party influence over all this. Someone else taught this guy these skills and funded the acquisition of the equipment.

Staged just in time for a vote on the UN small arms treaty?

More and more, this shooting is looking like a deliberate plot staged by the government itself much like Operation Fast and Furious pulled off by the ATF (http://www.naturalnews.com/032934_ATF_illegal_firearms.html) which helped smuggle tens of thousands of guns into Mexico for the purpose of causing "gun violence" in the USA, then blaming the Second Amendment for it.

All this looks like James Holmes completed a "mission" and then calmly ended that mission by surrendering to police and admitting everything. The mission, as we are now learning, was to cause as much terror and mayhem as possible, then to have that multiplied by the national media at exactly the right time leading up the UN vote next week on a global small arms treaty that could result in gun confiscation across America. (http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem61.1.html)

Even Forbes.com wrote about this quite extensively, warning readers about the coming gun confiscation effort related to the UN treaty. The story was authored by Larry Bell (http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/06/07/u-n-agreement-should...) and says the UN treaty could "override our national sovereignty, and in the process, provide license for the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights."

In other words, this has all the signs of Fast & Furious, Episode II. I wouldn't be surprised to discover someone in Washington was behind it all. After all, there's no quicker way to disarm a nation and take total control over the population than to stage violence, blame it on firearms, then call for leaders to "do something!" Such calls inevitably end up resulting in gun confiscation, and it's never too long after that before government genocide really kicks in like we saw with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and other tyrants.


Governments routinely murder millions

Here's a short list of government mass murder carried out throughout history, almost always immediately following the disarmament of the public (and usually involving staged false flag events to justify the disarmament):

50+ million dead: Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)
12+ million dead: Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) - concentration camps, civilian deaths and dead Russian POWs
8+ million dead: Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908)
6+ million dead: Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39)
5+ million dead: Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44)
2+ million dead: Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-22)
1.7 million dead: Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)
1.6 million dead: Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)
1.5 million dead: Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)
1 million dead: Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970)
900,000 dead: Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)
800,000 dead: Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)
See more at:
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

Death by government:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM
http://www.infowars.com/democide-government-killed-over-260-million-i...

A "monopoly of force" in government is far more dangerous than a crazed lone shooter

So yes, James Holmes and other crazed shooters kill a number of people each year in random acts of violence. It's horrifying and wrong, but it's nothing compared to the millions of lives that governments tend to destroy when they gain total power over the populace.

The most dangerous thing in the world, it turns out, is not a crazy person with a rifle; it's a government with a "monopoly of force" over the entire population. And that's exactly what the UN spells out as its goal for the world: Stripping all power from individual citizens and handing "monopolies of force" to the governments of the world, shoring up their positions as the only "legitimate" power on the planet.

See this document entitled, "Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)" policy paper No. 24:
http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Revisiting-the-State-Monopoly-on-the...

As this document reveals, a table entitled "Governance solutions for reasserting the state monopoly on the use of force" lists the options available to governments to re-establish "monopolies of force" against their own people:

• (Re-)establish state monopoly
- Ownership of WMDs
- Safety Inspectorates

• Prohibit business activity
- Justice and Execution
- Deadly Force?

• Regulate/limit activities
- Private defense/security services
- Control of financial transfers
- Export controls
- Transport and infrastructure safety
- Environmental impact

Interestingly, that document also describes "terrorism" in a way that perfectly matches the Aurora, Colorado "Batman" movie theater shooter:

Terrorists aim to spread panic and fear in societies in order to achieve political goals, be they based on left- or right-wing, social-revolutionary, nationalistic or religious ideologies. They are organized in a clandestine way, most often in small groups and cells... Typical tactical means include kidnapping, hostage-taking, sabotage, murder, suicide attacks, vehicle bombs and improvised explosive devices.



A global monopoly of force

This document is a goldmine of information about the globalist agenda to disarm and enslave the population. Check out page 28, which reads:

The legitimate monopoly of force should not be limited to the nation-state but should be based on the local, national, regional and the global levels.

Global Security Governance and the Monopoly of Force

At the global level no monopoly of violence exists. The UN Security Council already has a monopoly power to authorize the use of force at the global level, although the UN was never given the necessary means to exercise this authority, such as the capacity to implement sanctions, a police force and armed forces...

This deficiency in global governance acts as a bottleneck and a barrier to the creation of the democratically legitimized monopoly of violence that is globally required.


This story gets deep, doesn't it? Watch for more analysis here at NaturalNews.com, where we still fight for liberty and justice in a world that's increasingly becoming enslaved.



and...

Denver Batman premiere shooting - live updates
Masked gunman kills 14, injures 50 at screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Denver
Shooting at screening of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Denver Photograph: BBC
11.39am BST/ 04:39 MDT: Police Chief Dan Oates added this during the press briefing:
On behalf of all Aurora, this is a horrific event. Our hearts go out to all of the family. We have mobilised the witnesses that we could get our hands on to an area high school where de-briefings are under way. 

The FBI said they have agents working in the area and that they were aksing to talking to potential witnesses.

During questions Oates said he could add anything more about what the suspected shooter said "The only I will tell you is that he made a statement to us about explosives in his residence" and added that police were dealing with that.

About the suspected smoke bomb which was released in the theatre before the shooting he said, " There was a releases of some kind of smoke." 

11.25am BST/ 04:25 MDT: The Denver Childrens Hospital is reporting that the youngest person they're treating for bullett injuries is aged six.

11.21am BST/ 4:21 MDT: Here's some of the first half of a short press briefing from local police chief Dan Oates. At the start of the briefing he confirmed that a 24 year-old male had been arrested and was in custody:

As of now we only know of one gunman and we have noi evidence of any additional shooters. Police officers responded and found the gunman in the back of the theatre outside in the parking lot in his car in possesison of a gas mask and at least a rifle and a hand gun."
The shooting went on for some time as. We have approximately 50 injured and 14 dead. 10 dead in the theatre and four died at the area hospital.
The police response consisted of any one who was bleeding into police cars into hospitals....There may be some double counts.

The suspect is in custody and made statements about possible explosive in his residence. At this time there is a residence in a B=North Aurora apartment building which has been evacuated and we are searching for explosive inside there.
We are also concerned about explosives in the parking lot as it is [currently] sealed off.

11.14am: Local Denver station channel 9 has broadcast some footage taken by what appears to be someone inside the theatre after the shooting began.

It is grainy but shows some of the chaos after the shooting happened.


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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9414279/Denver-shooting-Batman-screening-live.html


Latest

11.25 (4.25 Denver) Witnesses saying that gunman co-ordinated shooting with the movie
11.17 (4.17 Denver) Emergency services at the scene
11.09 (4.09 Denver) Police using a robot to investigate suspect vehicle in the car park. The Hyundai is thought to be linked to the gunman and there are fears it may contain explosives.
11.05 (4.05 Denver) Frank Fania, a police spokesman told CNN that a rifle, a handgun and another gun, described by some witnesses as a shotgun, was found in the theatre.
Mr Fania said that witnesses told police the man “just appeared” at the front of the cinema, possibly from behind the screen or a fire exit.
He said that the motive was unknown “other than it was the latest Batman movie and there was a lot of people.”
Mr Fania said the suspect was apprehended by the first officers on the scene and did not resist arrest.
He added: “He was in the rear parking lot which really is not a public parking lot for the theatre. He did not resist, he did not put up a fight.
10.58 (3.58 Denver) Reports are that one of the victims was just six.
10.54 (3.54 Denver) more pictures emerging from the scene
10.47 (3.47 Denver) Reports of bullets passing through the walls into other theatres.
10.45 (3.45 Denver) Brenda Stuart, from 850 KOA Radio, said: "People inside tell us they thought it was part of the movie. They heard what they thought were firecrackers, loud bangs and all of a sudden they saw the bullets flying.
"Police officers are carting the injured to the hospital in their own cars, not waiting for the ambulances."
A makeshift hospital was set up at the mall to treat those wounded in the attack.
10.37 (3.37 Denver) Aurora Police chief Dan Oates said that there are 14 dead and 50 injured. He confirmed that 10 of the dead died in the theatre while four other died after arriving at hospital.
Mr Oates said a suspect was taken into custody and has told officers that he has explosives at his apartment. Mr Oates said his apartment building in north Aurora has been evacuated as police search the building.
Asked about rumours that a second gunman was on the looses, Mr Oates sais police did not believe that to be the case, but were still trying to establish the situation.
10.31 (3.31 Denver) Witnesses in other theatres were taken to the nearby Gateway High School to be debriefed by police.Hayden Miller was in theatre 16.
He told CNN: “We heard anywhere from 10 to 20 shots and little explosions going on people screaming.
“Someone came on the PA and told everyone they needed to get out as soon as we got out saw everyone running and screaming.”
Speaking about the moment he heard the shots, he added: “As soon as we heard shots go off we figured it must be a louder part of the movie next to us. Nobody thought anything of it then 30 seconds later…
“As soon as they evacuated us we were hearing from friends inside Theatre 9 that he was wearing a gas mask and throwing tears gas at people. He wasn’t trying to let anyone out.
“We saw a couple of people hunched over leaving the theatre and ambulances were filled but they weren’t moving they were not going anywhere.”
Another witness told the station that he watching saw a young girl being carried out of the theatre.
He said: “A cop came walking through the front door holding a little girl in his arms and she wasn’t moving. I don’t know whose little girl it was. My heart goes out to her family and I hope they are ok, I hope she is ok and recovers. But I heard another witness in my theatre she was on phone she told whoever she was talking to said she saw bullet holes in the little girl’s back.
“I can’t think of any person who would intentionally hurt a little girl. it makes me think she got caught in the crossfire.”
10.29 (3.29 Denver) Police confirm they have a suspect in custody. They do not believe there is a second gunman. The suspect has spoken about explosives at his house. Police are investigating.
10.27 (3.27 Denver) It is being reported by NBC News that the suspect is in custody. Witness told CNN that the suspect was wearing a riot helmet bullet proof vest wearing all black with goggles and holding a shotgun.
10.26 (3.26 Denver) 9 News Denver is reporting 14 dead 50 injured
10.11 (3.11 Denver) Eyewitnesses talking of a man dressed in a mask and bulletproof vest kicking open the emergency doors to theatre 9 and opening fire with a shotgun. As panic ensued he calmly walked up and down the aisle firing into the crowd.
10.10 (3.10 Denver) Aurora police chief confirms that minimum 10 dead and 39 injured in hospital
09.55 (02.55 Denver) NBC news in US said one suspect was in custody and a bomb squad had been sent to the theater in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. An Aurora police dispatcher confirmed a shooting at a cinema but did not provide further details.
09.45 (02.45 Denver) A masked gunman has shot dead 10 people and wounded 30 to 40 others at a showing of new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises at a suburban cinema in Denver, local radio station KOA has reported, citing witnesses.
The radio station said a figure in a gas mask had opened fire at the showing in a mall in the suburb of Aurora and set off a smoke or tear gas bomb. It said initial police estimates were of 30-40 injured.
Brenda Stuart, of 850 KOA Radio, said the victims were shot dead but there may have also been an explosion.

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