Showing posts with label Aurora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aurora. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Guards And Metal Detectors?

Guards And Metal Detectors?

August 09, 2015 Aurora , Colorado 0 Comments

Will Movie Theaters Ever Respond To Mass Shootings?



By Erik Sherman, Aug 07, 2015 Fortune

There have been three mass shootings in movie theaters since 2012. Yet there’s been no beefing up of security.

Wednesday saw a sad milestone, another movie theater shooting, in the Nashville, Tennessee area. A few weeks ago, there was a shooting that left three moviegoers dead in Lafayette, Louisiana, and the July 2012 shooting of 12 people at a theater in Aurora, Colorado is still etched in people’s memories (defendant James Holmes was found guilty of that shooting last month).

So, the question arises: what changes are theaters making to protect customers and to keep their businesses going?

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Friday, July 17, 2015

"Guilty Of Murder In The First-Degree"

"Guilty Of Murder In The First-Degree"

July 17, 2015 Aurora , First-Degree 0 Comments

Aurora Theater Shooter Found Guilty

By John Ingold and Jordan Steffen, July 17, 2015 Denver Post

CENTENNIAL — James Holmes is guilty of murder for killing 12 people in an Aurora movie theater three years ago, a jury decided Thursday, ending the legal limbo for one of the worst mass shootings in American history.

In count after emphatic count, jurors rejected the defense's argument that what happened at the Century Aurora 16 theater on July 20, 2012, was a tragic act of insanity. It was a deliberate crime, jurors said.

Holmes now faces possible execution as punishment.

The jury of nine women and three men found Holmes guilty of 24 counts of first-degree murder — two for each victim slain — as well as 134 counts of first-degree attempted murder, six counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of explosives possession.

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Didn't mall have "no gun" policy?

August 16, 2014 Aurora , Colorado 1 Comments
Judge Allows Lawsuits Against Cinema Owner In Colorado Massacre

Keith Coffman, Aug. 15, 2014, Reuters.com

Aug 15 (Reuters) - A federal judge has again refused to dismiss wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits filed against a movie theater chain by victims of a 2012 mass shooting at a Colorado cinema where 12 people were killed and dozens injured.

U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson on Friday rejected a motion for summary judgment filed by lawyers for Texas-based Cinemark USA to dismiss the lawsuits.

Nearly 30 victims or the families of those killed or wounded in the rampage have sued Cinemark, owner of the theater complex where the massacre took place.

In general, the lawsuits claim Cinemark had lax security at its theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora when a gunman opened fired during a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."

Jackson issued a similar ruling in April 2013 when lawyers for Cinemark argued that theater employees could not have anticipated having to deal with "a madman's mass murder."

"It would be patently unfair, and legally unsound, to impose on Cinemark, a private business in the entertainment industry, the duty and burden to have foreseen and prevented the criminal equivalent of a meteor falling from the sky," the motion by Cinemark's lawyers said.

The accused gunman, James Holmes, 26, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and is set to go on trial in December.

Cinemark, owned by Cinemark Holdings Inc, renewed its bid to have the case tossed, arguing that the plaintiffs have not developed enough facts to justify a trial, a notion that Jackson rejected.

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