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Colorado Theater Shooting
On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film ''The Dark Knight Rises''. Dressed in tactical clothing, 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Thirteen people, including an unborn baby, were killed and 70 others were injured, 58 of them by gunfire. Holmes was arrested minutes later in his car outside the cinema. Earlier, he had rigged his apartment with homemade explosives and incendiary devices. These were defused by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad a day after the shooting. Fearing copycat crimes, movie theaters showing the same film across the United States increased their security. Gun sales increased in Colorado, and political debates were generated about gun control in the United States. Holmes confessed to the shooting but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Arapahoe Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Center At Aurora
The Town Center at Aurora (formerly known as Aurora Mall) is an enclosed, two-level Regional mall#Regional, regional shopping center located in Aurora, Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, and covers a leasable area over 1 million square feet. It lies at the center of the commercial and retail district in the area, adjacent to Aurora Town square, City Square, Aurora City Place, and Aurora Park Shopping Center, a strip mall. The commercial district itself is located in central Aurora, Colorado, Aurora, and the mall's primary trade area includes a mostly suburban, middle-income demographic. Anchor stores and major tenants at the mall are Dillard's (originally The Denver Dry Goods Company, The Denver, became May-D&F in 1987, then Foley's in 1993), Macy's (originally May-Daniels & Fisher, May-D&F, became May-D&F Men's in 1987, then Foley's Men's in 1993, then a full-line Foley's in 2005), JCPenney, Century Theatres, and Fieldhouse USA (originally Sears). History Aurora Mall was developed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
