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YAHOO News - Colorado Movie Theater Shooting: 71 Victims The Largest Mass Shooting, Jul 20, 2012

(L-R) Police use a video camera to look inside suspect's apartment (AP/Ed Andrieski); photo provided by the University of Colorado shows James Holmes (AP)
Twelve people were killed and 59 were injured in Aurora, Colo., during a sold-out midnight premier of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" when 24-year-old James Holmes unloaded four weapons' full of ammunition into the unsuspecting crowd.
The number of casualties makes the incident the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Holmes, a graduate student at a nearby college with a clean arrest record, entered the movie auditorium wearing a ballistics helmet, bullet-proof vest, bullet-proof leggings, gas mask and gloves. He detonated multiple smoke bombs, and then began firing at viewers in the sold-out auditorium,

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