colorado, this morning after a mass shooting at a batman movie premiere. so far, 12 dead. and 38 injured. as a community searching for answers. a special edition of cnn newsroom starts right now. hello, everyone. i m in for carol costello. we welcome viewers from around the world watching on cnn international. a night at the movies turned into a night of terror for moviegoers in colorado after a gunman opens up a rampage. and here is the latest of what we know. gunshots erupted just outside of denver in an aurora, colorado, theater during an early morning screening of the dark knight rises. that is the new batman movie. 12 people are dead, 28 more wounded. a 3-month-old baby is among the wounded. police have a suspect in custody, a young man. a witness saw that man burst into the theater. somebody kicked in the emergency exit and started throwing gas grenade sais and started shooting people at random. was it movie theater number nine? number nine, which is the one
nine, at this movie theater, movie center. and then they had absolute chaos as some of the people realized they were being choked by the gas and he started opening fire. according to witnesses, very calmly walked up the stairs and just seemed to randomly be picking people out of the audience and shooting at them. we have quentin caldwell, a witness joining us by phone. thanks for talking to me. tell me where you were in the movie theater complex, 16 screens. we were in theater eight, ajas ent to where the incident happened. me and my wife go to the super hero premieres and decided to go this one night. there were many theaters in which the movie was being shown. gentlemyes, there are 16 then this one. you re watching the movie, how many minutes were you in before you noticed something wrong? we were 15 minutes in and there was a chase fire where there was gunfire on screen. right then out of nowhere on the right side we hear a very distinct pop pop pop pop. and my w
coming from eyewitness accounts of what happened. the dark knight rises, the new batman movie, people are going to a midnight screening of it inside the theater. there are reports that a masked gunman, possible gunmans, stood up and just began shooting. also reports that they may have been wearing some kind of gas mask and that there could have been tear gas that was let go inside the theater. kusa has been on the scene since this began, and more information continues to trickle out. and one of the ways that, obviously, these days information is coming through is twitt twitter. little by little, people are accounting what they ve seen on, you know, at the theater, people that were there, people that weren t there but hearing things on local radio. there are dozens, as you can see there, police on the scene trying to determine exactly what