Visitors Share Their Grief at Makeshift Memorial for Victims of the Aurora Movie Theaters Shootings
Tears are wiped away while two teenage girls visit a makeshift memorial for the Century 16 movie theater victims near the crime scene in Aurora, Colorado on July 21, 2012. Twelve movie goers shot and killed with up to fifty nine more people injured at the Century 16 movie theaters at the Aurora Town Center mall. The victims were attending a midnight premiere of the new Batman movie. The suspect, James Holmes, allegedly threw a smoke bomb and opened fire on the moviegoers. Holmes is in custody at the Arapahoe County Jail. UPI/Gary C. Caskey
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President Obama spent time Sunday with survivors and families of those killed in the theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., sharing hugs, tears and even laughter.
Police said they set off an explosion Saturday at the booby-trapped apartment of the Colorado theater-shooting suspect, significantly reducing the danger.
A fashion firm pulled its Aurora dress from its Web site and apologized for a note gloating over the dress's post-Colorado-shootings Twitter "popularity."
The family of a U.S. Navy petty officer working as a cryptologic technician at a Colorado base says he was among the 12 people killed in Aurora.
The husband of ex-U.S. Rep. Gabriel Giffords, who was wounded in a 2011 shooting rampage, said he and his wife were "horrified" by the Aurora, Colo., shooting.
Television networks have pulled ads for Batman because they felt it was inappropriate to run them alongside news reports of the Colorado theater shootings.
Some Democrats pushed for stricter gun-control laws after the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting in which 12 people were killed and 58 injured.
Police say they have heightened security at movie theaters across the United States following the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting during a screening of Batman.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Saturday "words cannot capture the horror" of the Aurora, Colo., shooting rampage that killed 12 people and injured 58.
President Barack Obama said Saturday the massacre in Colorado was "evil" and the federal government will do everything necessary to bring the killer to justice.
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