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Movie, a man in all black and wearing a gas mask appeared at the emergency door of theater 9. jennifer seegul was seated just feet away. >> i thought he was part of the show since it was the midnight premier. >> reporter: on screen, a shootout scene was unfolding. jennifer wondered if the guy coming up the aisle was part of the show, a publicity stunt. >> then he threw a grenade of gas and it exploded, all this gas. i thought, that was a special effect. nobody really knew what to think about it. >> reporter: without a word, he aimed his gun at the ceiling and fired a shot. that's when, jennife...

All this gas. i thought, that was a special effect. no one knew what to think of it. >> we heard a loud, pop, pop, pop. everyone got startled. it was super loud, louder than the sound track. my wife said, something ain't right. me being into the movie was like, it's probably the movie. good sound effects or something. >> he started at the corner of the screen and worked his way to the back and back down. >> he looked so calm. it was scary. >> just shooting people. he wasn't giving anybody a chance to get out. >> he was trying to shoot people getting out the door. he did. there were people tryi...

>>guest: and that is what everyone was thinking. he looked like a swat team member. like he had a vest on, he had gas mask on, and a rifle in his hand. i didn't see other weapons. i know he did, later on, but all i could see was the rifle and he looked like he was, literally, in a video game or, like, literally, like a swat team member or someone not army. when he came in he was probably -- he is a tall guy, 6' 3". tall. lean. with muscles. did you not know what to think, you thought he was joking around. everyone wascy length at first and caught off guard and he threw the gas grow made and pu...

>> mr. holmes came in the door. what did you think when you saw him with a gun. >> i thought he was part of a prop or was being theatrical, that it was part of the show. since it was the midnight premiere. i didn't know he was seriously a bad guy. you know what i mean. he came in and he was in full gear because they have things in the movie where they are dressed up kind of like that. he threw the grenade of gas and it exploded and there was all this gas. i thought, that was a special effect. no one knew what to think. he shot up in the ceiling and everybody knew it was real. it was just chaos...

The very right side. so when he came in, he came from the right side, from an exit doorway, and when he came in, i literally was four to five feet away from the man. i didn't know what was going on. i thought it was part of the show. i thought it was part of the premiere to make it more appealing or something because he looked like one of those guys that would be an actor in the show, and everybody thought that, too. they didn't know what to think of it. then he came in and he didn't say a thing. he just took this canister of tear gas or some kind of gas and he took the top of it off and threw...