On July
20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside of a Century movie theater in Aurora,
Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises.
A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into
the audience with multiple firearms, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others.
The sole suspect, James Eagan Holmes, was arrested outside the cinema minutes
later.
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Let us
hear from the victims’ families and homicide survivor of the mass shooting:
QUOTE 1: Tuesday, August 31, 2012 - TMZ spoke with Steven Hernandez, the brother of Rebecca Wingo,
one of the twelve victims of the Aurora, Colorado shooting almost two weeks ag,
and he said that James Holmes deserves the death penalty.
Wingo, who was 32, is survived by two young daughters. Prosecutors are currently considering a pursuit of the death penalty, but will not decide until they speak with the families of the victims.
Hernandez said: "My sister Rebecca was killed in the theater. My mother is bereft, my wife is distraught and I am heartsick and angry. Allow the justice system to punish this murderer. I want to see him sentenced to death and I hope he sits in jail many years waiting to die."
Holmes was charged with 142 counts for the shooting, including 24 counts of 1st degree murder.
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This combination of photos provided by their
families shows seven of the 12 victims in the Friday, July 20, 2012 Aurora, Colo.
movie theater shooting. Top row from left are Jonathan Blunk, Jesse Childress,
Gordon Cowden, Jessica Ghawi, and bottom row from left, John Larimer, Micayla
Medek, Alex Sullivan. (AP photo) (SOURCE: http://www.komonews.com/news/national/A-look-at-the-lives-of-12-Colorado-shooting-victims-163352386.html)
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QUOTE 2: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 22-year-old Carli
Richards -- whom Holmes shot in the back with a shotgun -- tells TMZ, "I think death by firing squad would be totally
justified ... Just injecting him is painless."
She says, "I
had enough needles in me that night to know that a needle isn't that bad. I
want him to see what it feels like ... I wish someone would shoot him and let
him bleed out."
She adds, "He shot me with stuff they use to shoot birds and deer. I want him to feel what it's like to feel that helpless."
Thankfully, Carli and her boyfriend
made it to safety before Holmes could kill them -- but Carli says she's still
in a lot of pain, and can't go back to work yet with her current injuries.
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Twelve were killed and another 58 were
injured at the hands of a heavily armed madman at the midnight showing of
"Dark Knight Rises" on July 20, 2012. The mass shooting suspect is
24-year-old James Holmes. The number of lives taken makes it one of the largest
mass shootings in American history. Among the dead are a 6-year-old girl, an
aspiring sportscaster, and three young heroes who took bullets to save their
girlfriends lives. Take a look back as we remember those whose lives were cut
short by this tragedy ... (SOURCE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/colorado-shooting-victims-gallery-1.1120112)
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QUOTE 3: Monday, April 1, 2013 - Friends of Aurora
shooting victims applauded prosecutors' decision today to seek the death
penalty for James Holmes, with one friend saying he wanted to be in the room if
Holmes is executed.
"I don't know if it's
painful. I want him dead. I just want to be there in the room when he
dies,"
Bryan Beard said outside the Colorado courthouse. "He
took one of my friends from this Earth. Death equals death."
Beard's close friend Alex Sullivan was
one of the 12 people killed in the shooting on July 20 last year. It was
Sullivan's 27th birthday.
Prosecutors from the Arapahoe County
District Attorney's Office said at a hearing today in Aurora, Colo., that they
will seek execution for Holmes if he is convicted.
QUOTE 4: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - "I'm
not opposed to him being sentenced to the death penalty," Rose
Martinez, another one of Moser's cousins, said. "People
in the whole world would probably feel more at ease knowing that somebody that
is capable of doing such a horrific crime is no longer on this earth."
Moser's
daughter was killed the night of the shooting. Her daughter Veronica
Moser-Sullivan was 6 years old. She was the youngest victim.
Moser was
pregnant with her second child at the time. Her unborn baby did not survive.
Moser's
medical expenses are mounting - and that will continue for the rest of her
life.
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