Police have been questioning the suspect gunmen in Friday morning's shooting at a crowded midnight screening of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Night Rises" in Aurora, Colorado. 12 people were left dead and 59 others wounded. It was the deadliest U.S. shooting since the Fort Hood Massacre in 2009. The suspect was identified by law enforcement officials as James Egan Holmes, 24. He's in police custody. Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates stated that authorities are 'confident' that Holmes was clad in all body armor and wore black--acted alone and used an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and a .40 caliber handgun in the attack. Another handgun was also found in his car, which was parked outside of the theater.
KUSA-TV reports that Holmes kicked down an emergency door at the theater, threw in some type of smoke bomb and began shooting when moviegoers started to run. The bodies of the ten people who died at the theater remained at the scene early Friday, which police were investigating. NYPD commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters during a news conference that Holmes had painted his hair red and said he was "The Joker", Batman's nemesis who doesn't appear in the latest film.
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