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Acted alone and, two, he was a relatively young male in his 20s. still working to confirm that. >> again, it happened 2:30 eastern, 12:30 central time. three hours ago in aurora, a suburb of denver. again, piecing this information together, he appeared at the front, and -- and detonated what appeared to be teargas. >> a canister as they made a hissing sound, sounded like teargas, what you would expect in that situation. again, between the darkness of the theater, the loud not of the theater, the...

On thun belieng coordinated attack? >> reporter: at this point, we simply do not know. as you said, it is just too early. most people are just now arriving here on the scene. so they are for sure trying to sort that out at the moment. at this point, we dont know. >> clayton, there was one report out there, we want to know if youve been able to confirm that the gunman basically let off some teargas, put on their masks, and basically opened fire with basically semiautomatic weapons s. there any tr...

He told police there was a bomb at his apartment. they evacuated, trying to figure out the severity of the situation. aurora police saying he cannot elaborate on when women or children were fatally injured. 14 deaths, 50 injured, as you heard from pierre thomas. our senior justice corresndent. saying right now there doesnt seem to be a connection to terror, but theyre trying to find out as much as they can. fact gathering about this individual and why he would unleash such a fury. >> and interes...

At that point we believe reportedly it was teargas, which further stunned and physically harmed and confused the crowd. in a roomful of sitting ducks, the suspect, a young male in his 20s, opened fire for reasons that at this hour remain painfully unclear. you have to believe that with the heavy, huge law enforcement presence and what theyll find in his apartment and through neighbor and perhaps co-workers, relatives, what have you, they will begin to paint a sad picture of what could have possi...

This kind of distraction that, one, blended into the movie and, two, create this distraction in the theater. perhaps, again, reportedly using teargas which we -- many of us have obviously heard of as a riot control agent of sorts. but it does cause irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs, and your skin. called teargas because it does make you cry immediately after youre exposed. you combine the special effects of the movie, the effect of the teargas, this guy had a room full of sitting duck...

Unfolded. it was showing in two theaters. you can imagine the theater was packed with people seeing "batman." not only employees, management who may have been there. he took advantage of the situation, one the loud not of the movie, two, the teargas, the weapons. and another example of how well orchestrated this was, he had a gas mask on during it. he knew at least from early reports judging from them that -- what he was going do to protect himself from the gas. he opened fire on what you assume...

Some sort of gas, whether it was teargas he released this canister, hissing sound. theres no evidence right now that -- that he acted with -- with an accomplice. he had a rifle, handgun, and gas mask. again, a large crime scene. and a large effort in terms of local and national authorities. the fbi is involved. they have 100 agents, 250 officers as rob mentioned from across the metro who do not believe according to our senior just correspondent, pierre thomas, that terror had any connection with...

One important point to make from law enforcement, we had one of the officers on a little while ago. heard a brief snippet of the press conference there. hes asking any potential witnesses to please come forward with any information that you might have. you can imagine probably several hundred people in that one theater. who knows how many throughout the entire complex. so theyre asking anyone who saw, heard, witnessed anything to please come forward and talk to police. theyre also asking the med...

You get a visual sense now of the chaos that was happening inside that theater moments after this lone gunman opened fire shortly after 12:30 a.m. there in colorado. just a few -- central time. excuse me. just after -- again, about 12:30 central time. apparently before he did that, also opened some kind of canister. early reports it could have been a teargas that served as a distraction or smokescreen before he opened fire. >> we do have new information. when the gunman was captured, he had a ri...

Theater there in aurora. >> richard, you listen to our reporter from kusa, jace larson, paint a picture, and we all see it. people dress up for first night of this highly anticipated movie, "the dark knight rises." they wear costumes, they just do. so i guess it doesnt raise eyebrows until he starts shooting. they say it was a masked gunman, perhaps in a gas mask, who opened fire. and you know, these situations, we understand that this particular release, the final release of the batman series, ...