Post by CMF Newsman on Jul 22, 2012 11:58:49 GMT -5
AURORA, CO — It was 12:39 a.m. Friday when the normal rhythms of Aurora went horrifyingly awry.
The first inkling came in a dispatcher's message, spoken as if the events unfolding at the Century 16 theaters were somehow matter-of-fact. "They are saying someone is shooting in the auditorium."
Police cars roared into the parking lot of the suburban Denver theater minutes later to find moviegoers splayed outside, sobbing and screaming for help, their arms and faces caked in blood.
And inside, officers were soon to discover, was an even more gruesome scene. "I have seven down in Theater 9! Seven down!" an officer bellowed, according to dispatch recordings that capture the aftermath of one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings.
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-colorado-shooting-response-20120722,0,3250353.story
The first inkling came in a dispatcher's message, spoken as if the events unfolding at the Century 16 theaters were somehow matter-of-fact. "They are saying someone is shooting in the auditorium."
Police cars roared into the parking lot of the suburban Denver theater minutes later to find moviegoers splayed outside, sobbing and screaming for help, their arms and faces caked in blood.
And inside, officers were soon to discover, was an even more gruesome scene. "I have seven down in Theater 9! Seven down!" an officer bellowed, according to dispatch recordings that capture the aftermath of one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings.
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-colorado-shooting-response-20120722,0,3250353.story