Former med student set traps in home before shooting, police say

Police arrested a 24-year-old former medical student for allegedly killing at least 12 people at a suburban Denver movie theater.

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Shamecca Davis hugged her son, Isaiah Bow, who was an eyewitness to the shooting at a Colorado movie theater.

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Police cars surrounded the Century 16 theater this morning in Aurora, Colo.

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Police used a video camera to look inside an apartment where the suspect in the shooting lived in Aurora, Colo.

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Jacob Stevens, 18, hugged his mother, Tammi Stevens, after being interviewed by police about the shooting.

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Chandler Brannon, 25, who witnessed the shooting, sat outside a high school where witnesses were brought for questioning.

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The Aurora bomb squad robot was deployed to search the suspect's car behind the movie theater after the shooting.

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A man reacted at Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colo., where some of the victims were taken.

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A SWAT team officer stood watch near an apartment building where a suspect is believed to live.

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Aurora, Colo., police responded to the Century 16 movie theater early Friday morning after a shooting there.

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Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates talked to media at the theater where at least 12 people were killed in the shooting.

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The shooting took place during the midnight screening of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises."

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Moviegoers waited across the street as Aurora Police strung crime scene tape around the parking lots at the movie theater.

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