Batman movie shooting: masked man kills 12, wounds 50 in Denver
A masked gunman opened fire at a suburban Denver movie theatre at an midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 people and wounding at least 50 others, on Friday morning. The police had originally reported 14 deaths.
The shooter, currently in custody, fired into the crowd at the front of the multiplex theatre at around 12:30 a.m. MT, at a mall in Aurora, Colo. NBC News has since identified the gunman as James Holmes, a 24-year-old man, born December 13, 1987.
“Witnesses tell us he released some sort of canister,” said Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates, speaking to the press. “They heard a hissing sound and some gas emerged and the gunman opened fire.”
The gunman was found near a car behind the theatre soon after the event. As per Oates’ announcement, a gas mask, rifle, handgun and at least one additional weapon were found inside his vehicle.
Much like Monday’s Danzig Street shooting coverage, a Redditor has assembled a detailed play-by-play of the police response to the attack, plus additional eyewitness details.
No word has been revealed as to Holmes’ possible motives.
More concrete falls from the Gardiner
Another day, another piece of fallen concrete off the Gardiner Expressway. Pieces of the Gardiner fell from the Humber loop tunnel on Friday morning, near Lake Shore Boulevard and Marine Parade Drive, east of Park Lawn Road.
No details have been released about how much concrete has fallen.
The loop, also accessible at the Queensway and South Kingsway, is closed to pedestrian traffic, for now. TTC has not been diverted, and streetcars are being allowed to go through the tunnel.
Google Street View is back in Toronto
It’s back! Google Street View returns to Toronto to digitally recapture the ever-changing GTA streetscape, for the next few weeks.
Launched in 2007, Google Street View uses composites of panoramic street-level images, taken from 360-degree cameras mounted on top of Google vehicles. The interactive online map has since spread to all seven continents, and been a beloved cyber locator, since parodied on television shows like The League.
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