Twelve people died at a movie theater shooting in Aurora Colorado on July 20, 2012. Ten died at the scene, and two died later at a hospital. The victims were:
Jonathan Blunk, 26
Alexander J. Boik, 18
Jesse Childress, 29
Gordon Cowden, 51
Jessica Ghawi (aka Jessica Redfield)
John Larimer, 27
Matt McQuinn, 27
Micayla Medek, 23
Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6 (Her mother Ashley was pregnant, was shot in the chest, miscarried a week after the attack, and was left a paraplegic.)
Alex Sullivan, 27
Alexander C. Teves, 24
Rebecca Wingo, 32
After rigging his apartment with homemade explosives and incendiary devices, the perpetrator went to the theater, bought a ticket, and then left the theater via an emergency exit, propping open the door. At his vehicle, he dressed in tactical clothing and retrieved his weapons. He then returned to the theater through the exit door and set off tear gas grenades then shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Eighty-two casualties were reported. Seventy were hit by bullets. The tear gas grenades irritated four people’s eyes, and eight additional people suffered non-gunshot injuries when trying to escape the theater.
Weapons used: Seventy-six shots were fired from a 12-gauge Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun, 65 shots were fired from a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle with a 100-round drum magazine, which eventually malfunctioned, and five shots were fired from a .40-caliber Glock 22 Gen4 handgun. He shot first to the back of the room, and then toward people in the aisles. A bullet passed through the wall and hit three people in an adjacent theater screening the same film.
