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<p>A sign listing movie times at Regal Cinemas at Crossgates Mall shows two afternoon showings for the movie The Dark Knight Rises are sold out, in Albany, N.Y., on Friday, July 20, 2012. A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, July 20, 2012, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)</p>

<p>A sign listing movie times at Regal Cinemas at Crossgates Mall shows two afternoon showings for the movie The Dark Knight Rises are sold out, in Albany, N.Y., on Friday, July 20, 2012. A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, July 20, 2012, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S.…

July 20, 2012

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Gunman kills 12, wounds 59 in Colo.
July 20, 2012 5:50 a.m.

Gunman kills 12, wounds 59 in Colo.

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman wearing a gas mask and black SWAT gear hurled a gas canister inside a crowded movie theater during a midnight showing of the new Batman movie Friday and then opened fire, killing 12 people and wounding nearly 60 others in an attack so bizarre that some moviegoers at first thought they were watching Hollywood special effects.