On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms.

James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is an American mass murderer responsible for the 2012 Aurora theater shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others (62 directly and eight indirectly) at a Century 16 movie theater on July 20, 2012. [10]

On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurs at a movie theater in Aurora, a Denver suburb, killing 12 people—the youngest a 6-year-old girl—and injuring at least 70 others.

Jul 19, 2013 · Here is a look at the July 20, 2012, movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve people were killed and 70 injured. On July 16, 2015, James Holmes was found guilty on all 165 counts...

Jul 20, 2012 · A gunman fired into a suburban Denver movie theater Thursday night during a midnight opening of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 12 people and injuring 59 others, authorities in...

Aurora shooting may refer to: 1993 Aurora, Colorado shooting; 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting; Aurora, Illinois shooting (2019)

Jul 20, 2017 · Five years later, here is a look back at the devastating shooting that shocked a nation. In the 60 days leading up to the shooting, Holmes had purchased four guns from local shops and more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition, police said at the time. All of the weapons and ammunition were purchased legally, police said.

A gunman attacked an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater on Friday, July 20, killing 12 and wounding 59, authorities said.

Jul 20, 2024 · AURORA | It’s been 12 years since a body-armor-clad gunman walked into Aurora’s Century 16 movie theater and opened fire on moviegoers, transforming a night of shared, joyful anticipation into an ordeal of grief, terror and death.

Jul 16, 2015 · CENTENNIAL | Almost three years after James Holmes walked into an Aurora movie theater and opened fire, killing 12, injuring 70 and traumatizing a city of 350,000 people, jurors needed only 13 hours to render a decision: Guilty on all charges, including 24 first-degree murder charges.