Cinema Security Tightened After Colorado Theater Shootings
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Time Warner Inc. canceled the Paris premiere for “The Dark Knight Rises,” and New York City deployed police officers to cinemas showing the Batman film after a gunman killed at least 12 people at a Colorado theater.
As many as 50 were shot when the gunman wearing a gas mask set off a tear gas bomb and opened fire at about 12:30 a.m. in the theater in Aurora, Colorado, operated by Cinemark Holdings Inc. Police found explosives in the home of a 24-year-old man arrested at the adjacent shopping mall, Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates told reporters.