memorials and now funerals. above all, though, it's been a week to focus on a dozen lives as thewere lived not just as they were lost. tonight on this one week anniversary in this special hour of "360" as we have all week we're going to focus on those whose lives were lost and those whose lives were forever changed. >> john blunk. >> we will remember. >> a.j. boik. >> we will remember. >> jesse childress. >> we will remember. >> gordon cowden. >> we will remember. >> jessica ghawi. >> we will remember. >> john larimer. >> we will remember. >> matt mcquinn. >> we will remember. >> micayla medek. >> we will remember. >> veronica moser-sullivan. >> we will remember. >> alex sullivan. >> we will remember. >> alexander teves. >> we will remember. >> and rebecca wingo. >> we will remember. >> community promising we will remember. that was colorado's governor at the memorial just days after the shooting. you can hear it in the voices of the crowd. people determined not to make this about a gunman but about a father of four great kids. about a baby sister working to earn enough money to see the world. about a multitalented mom pushing new horizons. about a 6-year-old girl. we will remember. these are their stories. not far from the century theater, 12 white crosses honor those whose lives have been cut short. airman kevin came to mourn his friend, staff sergeant jesse childress, a 29-year-old cyber systems operator. stationed at buckly air force base. >> i think of a big nerd. someone who was always humorous. someone who always made the office brighter. >> reporter: a.j. boik is being remembered for his laughter as well. only 18 years old, he recently graduated high school. his friends made a facebook page in his honor, posting videos of him dancing and smiling. you can't find someone with a brighter smile and more positive outlook, one friend wrote. gordon cowden was the oldest of those who lost their lives. 51-year-old father devoted to his kids. he owned his own business and loved his outdoors. he'd taken his two teens to see batman. the kids survived. 26-year-old jonathan blunk was also a father. he had two young children. a navy vet. he died shielding his girlfriend. his former wife says their 4-year-old daughter now takes comfort listening to him speak on his voice mail message. >> johnny was the type that always wanted to be the hero, help anybody in any way he can, always wanted to make people smile and laugh. he was always very optimistic and outgoing. >> reporter: matt mcquinn also died protecting his girlfriend. they both cently moved to colorado. his friends and family want to remember his great heart and his big personality. >> i'm very proud of him. i'm going to miss him. >> you're nailing it, i'm telling you. >> reporter: jessica ghawi was a 24-year-old aspiring sports reporter. she'd moved to denver to start her career. she was the first victim publicly identified. i spoke to her brother jordan on friday. >> her dreams cut short. we're going to try to sustain those dreams and push them forward. she was an asset to our family. an asset to our community. >> reporter: john larimer is also being remembered as an asset to his community. like his dad and grandfather before him, he joined the navy. he was just 27 years old. >> john had that calming personality. that everybody seemed to gravitate to. everything he did either on the job or off the job, he was a true gentleman in every way, shape and form. >> reporter: alex sullivan was also 27. he was celebrating his birthday. sunday would have also been his first anniversary with his wife casey. everyone says he was full of joy and was loved dearly by his friends and family. 23-year-old micayla medek was known as cayla by her friends. she attended aurora community college and planned to graduate in 2015. she described herself as an independent girl just trying to get her life together while having fun. just a year older, alex teves was 24. he wanted to be a psychiatrist and recently had earned a master's degree in counseling. he's survived by two younger brothers. 32-year-old texas native rebecca wingo has two young girls. she joined the air force after high school. fluent in chinese, she served as a translator before moving to colorado. >> the sweetest smile you ever seen. she got prettier as she grew older. in the blink of an eye, something happens and completely changes everyone's life forever. >> reporter: in the blink of an eye, everyone's life can change forever. little veronica moser-sullivan's life had only just begun. the youngest of all the victims. she was just 6 years old. a vibrant little girl. she'd just learned to swim. a swimsuit, stuffed animals and candles now surround the cross placed in veronica's memory. tom and karen teves lost a son, alex, who was killed while shielding his girlfriend from gunfire. alex died a hero on monday, his father faced the suspect in court and saw, in his own words, a coward. i spoke with them monday night. >> i'm so sorry for your loss. i mean, it sounds like such a hollow thing to say. how are you holding up? >> we got to move forward. alex would have expected us to live. we're going to live. alex was all about life. i can talk about being in white. i didn't really dress up but there's a reason for this. alex was the type of kid who brought people together. when he was in high school, for no reason whatsoever, well, alex used to wear blue jeans and a white t-shirt every day to school. my wife being the anal-retentive woman she is, there would be 16, on laundry day, t-shirts on my hangers, all hung up, ironed, and he would wear them every day. through all of high school. halfway through senior year they decided to have alex teves day and 400 or 500 kids came to school in blue jeans and a white t-shirt. there were girls that said "i love teves" and, you know, it was pretty cool. >> how did you guys meet? >> we went to school together at the u. we started as friends but it was something more than that so -- >> ryan, how long have you been best friends? >> i've known alex for ten years. he was my best friend. saying friend almost doesn't even do it justice. he really was like the other part of me. i knew alex for ten years. we went to high school together. we lived all four years in college together. we were extremely close. >> what do you think it was about him that drew you to him? >> i don't know. it's not even what drew me to him. it's about what drew everybody to him. tom's story about everybody that dressed up as alex that one day in high school just shows that everybody was drawn to him. and he was so funny. like that's what i'm trying to tell everybody who doesn't know him. he was just the most hilarious person wherever he would go. his jokes and he was extremely caring. >> i'm obviously not going to pester you with questions about what happened that night. you feel alex did save your life? >> with every ounce of my being, he did. i wouldn't be here without him. >> you were in the courtroom today. i talked to a lot of family members who don't want to even look at that person. why did you want to do that? >> because i wanted to see what he looks like first of. second off, he doesn't look like much. it's not about him. it's about this poor girl who is a victim as well. it's about my son who this individual dressed in riot gear, whatever it is, with guns, literally blew his head off, because he was protecting her. it's not about him. i just wanted to see him and i wanted to see there's people care and aren't afraid of him. >> what is it like being here in aurora? >> awful. >> awful? >> it's the worst day of my life every day. alex was my first born son. i loved him with all my heart. just like i like those two. i liked them, i don't really love them. you know what i mean. but it's awful. it's awful and it's senseless. if we don't stop talking about the gunman -- so if somebody took a gun and went in and shot a 6-year-old girl, why are we talking about that person? why -- i would love to see -- and i'll give you a challenge. i would like to see cnn come out with a policy that said "moving forward, we're not going to talk about the gunman." what we're going to say is he a coward walked into a movie theater and started shooting people. he's apprehended. the coward's in jail. let's move on to the victims. never talk to him again. >> it's also one of those horrible things that even years from now people sometimes remember the name of the killer. >> give me one person who died in tucson besides gabby gifford. there was a girl from 9/11 who died. they made her -- but nobody can remember the name. but you can still remember the face of that coward. because that's the only word i'm going to use on television. >> listen, i appreciate you all being on and talking about alex and helping people to get to know him because i think that's the most important thing, what we're trying to do right now. >> i appreciate it. thanks for your time. >> as we continue to honor the lives of the faln and showcase some of the people who risked it all to save lives, we also want to show you moment by moment what happened inside theater nine. as our special "360" coverage continues. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone likes a bit of order in their life. virtual wallet helps you get it. keep track of spending, move money with a slide, and use the calendar. all to see your money how you want. ♪ we began the hour with the people inside theater nine who did not make it out alive. we'll continue to honor their lives tonight while also spotlighting the people who risked everything to save others. before we go on though, i just want to paint you a picture of those moments inside the theater. what we know as "the dark knight rises" played on the screen and the killer began his deadly assault. it's about 12:30 a.m. 20 minutes or so into the sold-out premiere of "the dark knight rises." a gunman dressed head to toe in bulletproof gear and a gas mask throws a canister of what may have been tear gas into the room through the exit door which he propped open earlier after purchasing a ticket to the movie and sneaking out the theater. the canister ignites causing confusion among theater goers. who don't realize the danger they're in. >> when this popping started happening, i thought it was fireworks. like someone playing a prank or joke or something, you know. and then some smoke started rising in the lower right corner of the theater. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman enters the theater, first fires at the ceiling, then turns his gun on the crowd. he came down with his gun in my face. he was about three feet away from me at that point. in that instant, i honestly didn't know what to do. i was terrified. >> reporter: the terror spreads. eyewitnesses describe the gunman as, quote, quietly firing into the crowd. >> i grab her. then we just go down on the ground. hiding below, like, the chairs, and the guy's just standing right by the exit, just firing away. he's not aiming at a specific person. he's just aiming everywhere, trying to hit as many people as he can. all i remember is i was down on the ground. i was covering myself right when i was going up trying to see the guy. like just the tear gas was getting me. my eyes were, like, watery. i was crying. my throat felt weird. felt like i was breathing from my nose. it was hard to breathe. i kept ducking down. telling my sister to go forward pushing her forward. there's guys running on top of me. jumping away from the seats. trying to escape. the guy was firing. he was shooting like a minute or two minutes. >> reporter: the gunman doesn't discriminate. children are also shot. this mother is wounded in the leg as she tries to escape the gunfire with her 4-month-old son and 4-year-old daughter. >> i just grabbed the baby and i just drug -- i just grabbed my daughter and got her out as fast as i could. and just ran out. i didn't turn around. i didn't look behind me. i just got out. then there was a moment where my daughter tripped and i just pulled her up and i was just dragging her and i was just thinking, we just got to get out. even -- i just got to get out the doors. even if i just fall dead, just get my kids out of here. it was -- it was just so horrible. >> reporter: at 12:39 a.m., the first calls come into 911. >> 315 and 314, first shooting at century theaters. 14 300 east alameda avenue. they're saying somebody's shooting in the auditorium. >> reporter: police arrive within 90 seconds to soon learn 70 people have been wounded. the cell phone video shows panicked and bloody victims streaming out of the theater. >> look, he's shot -- look -- >> reporter: inside, ten people are dead. >> we need rescue inside the auditorium, multiple victims. >> reporter: got seven down in theater nine, seven down. >> i've got a child victim. i need rescue at the back door, theater nine, now. >> reporter: two more victims later die at the hospital. bringing the death toll so far to 12. >> there was this one guy who was on all fours crawling. there was this girl spitting up blood. there were bullet holes in some people's backs. some people's arms. there was this one guy stripped down to just his boxers. like he had been shot in the back. >> reporter: while police and emergency workers help the victims, the suspect is spotted standing by a white car in the parking lot of the theater. >> i need a marked car behind the theater stable side. the suspect in a gas mask. everyone hold the air one second. cars, where that white car in the rear of the lot, is that the suspect? yes. we've got rifles. gas masks. he's detained right now. got an open door going into that theater. >> okay. hold that position. hold your suspect. >> reporter: within seven minutes of the first 911 call, the gunman surrenders to police. he's identified as 24-year-old james holmes. a student in the process of withdrawing from the university of colorado's neuroscience ph.d. program. hoesms holmes, who lives just four miles from the movie theater, tells police he's left a bomb in his third floor apartment. >> we're not sure what we're dealing with in the home. they appear to be incendiary devices. there's some chemical elements there. there's also some incendiary elements. they're linked together with all kinds of wires. as a layman, it's not something i've ever seen before. >> hard to imagine. an apartment wired to kill first responders. or anyone who came through that door with enough improvised explosives to potentially take down the building. the suspect was deprived of that sick pleasure. as we've been trying to do all week, we're trying to deprive him of anything that might please him and highlighting the people who truly matter. the people who history should remember. people like rebecca wingo. a mom of two. she was multitalented. multilingual. she devoured books in a single sitting and was putting herself through school again. she was 32. i spoke with her mother and her best friend. what do you want people to know about rebecca? >> we want rebecca to be remembered for the loving giving, brilliant soul that she was. we want her life in the military to be honored. she was in the air force for 11 years. as a mandarin chinese linguist. she was going back to school. she wanted to work with foster children who were aging out of the system and have nowhere to go. she was just the best-hearted person you ever would meet. we also wanted to thank everyone who's helped us so much. and we wanted to clear up some confusion about the 529 and also the fundme.com, aurora heroes.com website. we want you to know those funds are being used to bring in people from all over the world that loved rebecca and want to say good-bye to her. so thank you so much for letting us all get together. >> kate, you were rebecca's best friend. what was it about her that drew you together? i heard one person say that she was like a catalyst when she entered a room. she sort of lit up the room. >> so true. yeah, she did. i met her at a music show. music was one of her favorite things. and she just -- she was so vibrant and everybody was drawn to her. and we just -- turned out we had so much in common. and we just became friends instantly. and we spent a lot of time together going to shows. and she -- always there for anyone who needed her all the time. she was the most giving person. and the most brilliant spirit i've ever met. >> she's left behind two daughters. how -- i mean, do they understand what's happened? >> the 9-year-old has a better grasp. but the 5-year-old, no. and we've been told by psychologists that they're too young to understand permanence. so even if the 9-year-old understands that mommy died, she doesn't -- she can't imagine that mommy's never coming back. ever. >> shirley, is there anything else you want people to know about rebecca? >> she should be an example to everyone, as the most amazing way to live a life. just go for it and -- kindness all the time. she always showed kindness to everyone. she didn't have a mean bone in her body. if everyone lived that way, we'd have a much better world. >> that's right. >> i know -- >> we're going to do it rebecca's way from now on. >> i know the prayer vigil on sunday, i've said this before, but i thought one of the most moving moments is when the speaker would read out somebody's name and the whole crowd would roar back "we will remember you." i just want to leave you with that tonight. i think there's a lot of people. and we will remember her. and i appreciate you come on and talking about her. >> thank you. >> shirley, kate, i wish you both -- >> thank you so much. >> i wish you strength and peace. >> and thank everybody in the world for praying for us. >> there is so much pain. when we come back, we'll introduce you to a baby-sitter named kaolin. one of the bravest 13-year-olds you'll probably ever meet. she tried to save the 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