The radio station said a figure in a gas mask had opened fire at the showing in a mall in the suburb of Aurora and set off a smoke or tear gas bomb.
Brenda Stuart, from 850 KOA Radio, told Sky News: "This started with a midnight showing of the new Dark Knight movie and the theatres were packed that were showing this movie."
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Not much more news at this hour. 12 dead for sure and many more wounded. An awful tragedy to be sure. Please, please, tell me some wingnut did not do this horrible act because of Bain/Bane being in the movie.
Just conjecture on my part, but concerning the politics of the movie Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been talking conspiracy.
"Do you think that it is accidental, that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?" Limbaugh asks.
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UPDATE:
3:14 AM PT:
The gunman is reportedly aged in his early 20s and was armed with one rifle and two handguns, it was reported. Some of those injured were in an adjacent cinema and the bullets are believed to have travelled through an intervening wall. Police also closed off surrounding parking lots as sniffer dogs were brought in to search a Hyundai vehicle for a suspected explosive device.Sky sources said the FBI were considering raising the national security alert level after the incident. ABC News reported as many as 100 agents had been assigned to the case.
Fox News initially reported there were two gunmen involved.
Police said there was no evidence a second gunman was involved, but they were investigating reports.
Witnesses described the gunman as heavily armed and reported he appeared to be wearing body armour.
3:35 AM PT: Update II:
Police Chief Dan Oates has given an account of what happened during the attack. "Approximately at 12.30 this morning a gunman appeared at the front of one of the theatres in the Century 16 theatre," he said. "Witnesses tell us that he released some sort of canister. They heard a hissing sound and a gas emerged and then we know that the gunman opened fire." Police are saying there was "no evidence" of a second gunmen. Police then responded, finding the gunmen at the back of the theatre in the parking lot, he said. He added that the shooting had gone on "for some time". They have one person in custody
An eyewitness has said the attacker was dressed all in black and was wearing a riot helmet, bulletproof vest and goggles.