he w he was pressing the crease of his neck and shoulder and there was blood everywhere. it was truly horrific. for people who are trying to visualize the inside of this movie theater itself, you said you were the fourth row from the top. is this a stadium type of movie theater so you were to the top near the back exits as opposed to the side exits, correct? it s very auditorium, and it s one of their larger it s their largest theater that they have at this century 16, and they have the exit in the back and two exits in the front and the two side hallways. there is quite a few chairs. there were tons of people. this place was packed. the guy was relentless. he just shot and we were all just sitting ducks. and tanner, you were able to get out with all the people you arrived with, correct? the young friends you were there with, they re doing okay? yeah. yeah, they re doing fine. we all got out uninjured. the young one, he s 12 years
it was a packed house in that movie theater, 50 victims, 12 of which have died, 38 others being treated. we want to go now to reporter jere jeremy hola. the shooting suspect has been confirmed as 24-year-old james holmes, but we now understand police and investigators on the scene of his apartment has figured out it s booby trapped. can you confirm that? this guy was methodical in his planning. about ten minutes ago, chief dan oates of the aurora police department said, quote, booby trapped. the third floor of this apartment unit is where this suspect lived, and on the third floor, they cannot enter that apartment because it is booby trapped. the chief said that it looks pretty sophisticated. that s his quote. the briefing was very quick, they would not answer any questions. there are fire trucks here surrounding this very generic-looking apartment complex. it s a very generic, unassuming apartment complex, but the police department dealing with an extraordinary circumsta
armed with an assault rifle and two handguns came in through a theater exit. nbc confirmed that the suspect is 24-year-old james holmes. two witnesses that were inside the theater 9 described what happened next on nbc station kusa. he threw one gas like one teargas thing. landed in the row in front of us, hit the girl in front of us. then they exploded. he threw another one. yeah. i think that went to the right of us. did you see him starting to shoot people at that point? he actually waited. he looked so calm when he did it. it was, like, scary. he waited for the bombs both to explode before he even made any move. then after both of them exploded he began to shoot. the first shot was in the air. after that he started shooting towards no specific target. he let loose. some theatregoers said they thought it was part of the movie since it happened during an action scene. some of the bullets went into theater 8 also showing the dark knigh knight . k can
but so far, aurora s police chief says there is no evidence of any additional shooters, and the fbi says there s no indication the incident is tied to any terrorist organization. we ve talked to a lot of witnesses this morning who have designed an absolutely terrifying scene. a man who was at the front right of the theater came in right near the right-hand part of the screen, fired something into the air, and then opened fire on the crowd. according to investigators and our own pete williams, he was heavily armed with at least four weapons on him in addition to the tear gas, he was wearing a gas mask, dressed in all black and appeared to have a bulletproof vest. a lot of questions because according to just about every eyewitness, he came in through an emergency exit. normally, as you know, those exits cannot be opened from the outside. but one eyewitness described seeing a man inside the theater get up, use a cell phone or at least pretend to use a cell phone and then go
during this, they made the effort to take pictures inside that unit, and so you can bet they re taking those photographs and they re dissecting every angle of those photographs. they ll approach this very delicately, because who knows what this guy did in there. they re saying this thing is booby trapped. again, this is the apartment of 24-year-old james holmes who has been identified as the shooting suspect at the movie massacre there in aurora, colorado. jeremy, confirm for us, too, the car, the vehicle that was parked behind the movie theater that is holmes vehicle. he also said there were explosives in that but police have not confirmed they found anything like that in the vehicle, right? from what we heard in the early hours of this incident, we heard that he told police that there were possibly explosives in his car, but when they apprehended him and they have seized his vehicle from what we understand, there were no explosives in his car. but i ll tell you, around