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4 Dead After Police Standoff in Aurora, Colorado

AR-15 style rifle is displayed at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop, in Aurora, Colorado, July 2012. Similar weapons have been used in at least four high-profile shootings in the past year.
AR-15 style rifle is displayed at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop, in Aurora, Colorado, July 2012. Similar weapons have been used in at least four high-profile shootings in the past year.
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Four people are dead after a police standoff involving a gunman in the U.S. city of Aurora, Colorado, the site of a deadly mass shooting at a movie theater last year.

Police say the suspect in Saturday's shooting barricaded himself inside a house before he was shot and killed when police entered. It is not clear if the suspect shot himself. Police found three other people shot and killed inside the home, while one person escaped the house uninjured.

Aurora made international headlines last July when a man went on a shooting rampage inside a movie theater during the midnight screening of the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. The attack killed 12 people and left at least 58 others wounded.

Police say suspect James Holmes threw a tear gas bomb in the theater before opening fire on the audience.

Prosecutors have filed 142 charges against Holmes, including counts of murder with extreme indifference, attempted murder and possession of explosives. His preliminary hearing is scheduled to begin on Monday.

The cinema shooting re-ignited the U.S. gun control debate, which intensified last month after a gunman killed 20 young children and six staff members at an elementary school in Connecticut.

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by: anna from: south k
January 06, 2013 3:16 AM
It's so sad there are many peoples died or wounded without any cause i just hope not to happen accidents by the gun.


by: Anonymous
January 06, 2013 12:50 AM
Seriously, do you get paid to do this? There is barely any information here. Over half of your text is about previous unrelated events. You have a big picture of a gun that you have no idea whether or not is related to this event.

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