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And lastly, someone who lashes out generally at society in a random way. one of the things that puts fear into people, in addition to the fact that theyre seeing this all the time in the news media, is the fact that these kind of crimes hit us at places where you expect safety and calm. and with this shooter, that was his motive. >> you know, a lot of people have suggested a that this is a guy who wanted attention. he didnt run. he made a point to tell the police about his apartment being booby ...

Like -- i dont remember the scene that happened, i just remember a gunshot in the movie in the theater, but i didnt see him, i didnt -- i didnt hear anything until last night about him, specifics. >> reporter: so we should let people know who arent familiar, that it was theater 9 that the main shooting took place, but some of the bullets actually penetrated through the walls. how long did it take before people in your theater recognized or understood what was really going on? >> i would say less...

Not ambulances, police cars. and they started pulling bodies out of the police cars. >> so they took the victims -- >> the people that were most gravely wounded were shoved into police cars and taken to the hospital. >> this almost sounds like an episode of "e.r." >> i said that, too. she said to me it felt like a dream. shes 33 years old. shes been a practicing physician for a number of years, but she had never seen a trauma like this. she had never seen so many patients with so many gunshot wo...

Heroes, the firefighters in the city of aurora, chief mike garcia would like to make a few remarks. mike? >> thank you, dan. i would just like to make three brief points on behalf of the aurora fire department. the first is our heartfelt condolences go out to the families and the victims of this senseless and shameless act of violence. we truly feel for the families and the victims and our prayers are with you. the second point i would like to make is how proud i am of our firefighters. whats go...

Thinking of the case with gabby giffords. his parents knew he was troubled, his friends knew he was troubled, the school knew he was troubled. does it surprise you at this point that holmes doesnt seem to have given any indication to anybody anything other than he was quiet? >> this doesnt fit the usual match of whats happened before hand. you go back to the columbine shooting and there was two individuals that did some rudimentary but effective planning for what they wanted to perpetrate. they ...

See anything. >> and you were pretty far away. this is a newer movie theater. you have to walk up a lot of steps to get to the back of the theater. you think you were how far from the back of the theater maybe? i was with my boyfriend and we were about five or six rows from the top, top. >> so its pitch dark in there, the movie is still playing. youre hearing the noise from the movie in addition to the gunfire thats happening inside. it must have been hard for you to see what was going on. >> ye...

Bomb squad here. they operate almost -- each and every day in a collaborative environment. it went seamlessly and we rolled in the national assets. thank you. >> how much experience does one have to have in bomb making to make something like this? >> so, again, there is unfortunately quite a bit available on the internet. but we dont want to go into any of the tactics or procedures of what mr. holmes may have done. again, because we dont want to jeopardize the prosecution. im going to turn it ov...

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