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Theater where the shooting happens. technicians have been on the scene all night long, trying to find out what they can do to disarm the sophist skaicated ded they found. holmes is the one who tipped police off to the fact the apartment was booby-trapped in the first place. and now is not cooperating with investigators, has retained his own legal counsel. were going to bring in tanner coon, tanner, its good to have you back with me. we had a chance to speak earlier today. as we have heard your s...

The gunshots, people were screaming. theres a difference between a thrill scream and bloody murder scream. >> reporter: then he realized the gunman was firing from another direction. and then silence. as he and his friend rushed for the exit, he paused for a moment and turned around. >> as the gunshots were going off, some people were rolling under the seats and it was burning our skin. >> reporter: four rows from the back of the theater, tanner coon had a birds-eye view. >> i thought the first ...

there was a girl splitting up blood. there were bullet holes in some peoples backs and some peoples arms. >> the thing that affects me most is seeing that young girl just laying there shot. she was just a little kid still, you know. like it is just not right. >> 12:39 local time. calls start coming in to police. >> we may have a number of people dead inside the theater. >> okay. if they are dead just leave them, we are in a mass casualty situation at this time. >> within two minutes po...

fours crawling. there was a girl splitting up blood. there were bullet holes in some peoples backs and some peoples arms. >> the thing that affects me most is seeing that young girl just laying there shot. she was just a little kid still, you know. like it is just not right. >> 12:39 local time. calls start coming in to police. >> we may have a number of people dead inside the theater. >> okay. if they are dead just leave them, we are in a mass casualty situation at this time. >> withi...

there was a girl splitting up blood. there were bullet holes in some peoples backs and some peoples arms. >> the thing that affects me most is seeing that young girl just laying there shot. she was just a little kid still, you know. like it is just not right. >> 12:39 local time. calls start coming in to police. >> we may have a number of people dead inside the theater. >> okay. if they are dead just leave them, we are in a mass casualty situation at this time. >> within two minutes po...

>> iigate seven down in theater nine. seven down. >> i got a child victim i need rescueats the back door. right now. >> we have one we cannot move in theater nine. get an ambulance crew in here. >> we may have a number of people dead inside the theater. >> were in a mass casualty situation at this time. >> authorities say 24-year-old james egan holmes bought a ticket to the midnight opening of "dark knight rises." as the theater went dark, he was seen on his cell phone exiting through ...

years an american has committed mass murder. columbine, colorado, april 20, 1999. 13 dead. 26 wounded. after two students shot them down. the two then committed suicide. april 1 16, 2007. a deranged man on the virginia tech campus kills 33 people including himself. no motive for the homicides. november 5, 2009. army major nadal hassan kills 13 americans at fort hood, texas. currently charged with premeditated murder. his trial will begin next year. and january 8, 2011 gerald love lofne...

years an american has committed mass murder. columbine, colorado, april 20, 1999. 13 dead. 26 wounded. after two students shot them down. the two then committed suicide. april 1 16, 2007. a deranged man on the virginia tech campus kills 33 people including himself. no motive for the homicides. november 5, 2009. army major nadal hassan kills 13 americans at fort hood, texas. currently charged with premeditated murder. his trial will begin next year. and january 8, 2011 gerald love lofne...

years an american has committed mass murder. columbine, colorado, april 20, 1999. 13 dead. 26 wounded. after two students shot them down. the two then committed suicide. april 1 16, 2007. a deranged man on the virginia tech campus kills 33 people including himself. no motive for the homicides. november 5, 2009. army major nadal hassan kills 13 americans at fort hood, texas. currently charged with premeditated murder. his trial will begin next year. and january 8, 2011 gerald love lofne...

imagine this. inside this state-of-the-art theater, this premiere movie, so many of the people in that theater had no other way of knowing that this wasnt somehow part of the presentation until it was clear the gas canister he fired off was real to suppress the crowd and the rounds coming from his weapons were real. our team is here assembled to cover this story. lets begin with what happened with nbcs miguel almaguer. >> 315 and 314 for a shooting at century theaters. >> reporter: the...