AURORA, Colo. (AP) — FBI agents and police used a hook and ladder fire truck to reach the Denver suburb apartment window of the suspect in a mass shooting at a movie theater.
They put a camera at the end of 12-foot pole inside the apartment and were watching footage Friday morning of what the camera saw on a small television screen.
Television video showed an officer in a helmet and vest atop the fire truck boom smashing the window of the third-floor apartment where 24-year-old James Holmes lives.
He’s in custody and the FBI says there’s no indication the shooting is tied to any terrorist groups.
The apartment is about four miles from the theater where at least 12 people were killed and 50 were wounded.
Paris movie premiere cancelled
PARIS (AP) — The Paris premiere of the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” has been canceled after a gunman killed 12 people at a Colorado opening of the same film.
Workers were pulling down the red carpet display in front of a movie theater on the French capital’s famed Champs-Elysees Avenue on Friday afternoon. Some could be seen carrying away a large mask that had adorned the facade of the theater.
The night before in a Denver suburb, a man wearing a gas mask released an unknown gas into a crowded movie theater and opened fire. Twelve people were killed and at least 50 wounded. The shooter, a man in his 20s, has been arrested. The FBI says there is no indication so far of any links to terror groups.
Federal agencies responding to shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she is saddened by the deadly shootings in a suburban Denver movie theater, and she has instructed her department to provide any necessary support for the investigation.
Napolitano says federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are responding to the event.
Officials have a man in custody and believe he killed 12 people when he fired into a crowded movie theater.