Friends and family hope for good news but fear the worst as word trickles out of the fate of their loved ones after a movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
A sports blogger who recently wrote about surviving a shooting in Canada. A man preparing to celebrate his first wedding anniversary. A young womanwhose death announcement brought heartbreak, yet closure, to her family.
They were among the 12 people killed when a gunman barged into a crowdedColorado theater, set off a gas canisterand opened fire as spectators dove for cover. Dozens of others were injured, including 11 in critical condition.
Alex Sullivan was supposed to be celebrating his 27th birthday Friday, beginning with a midnight screening of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo.
"Oh man one hour till the movie and its going to be the best BIRTHDAY ever," he tweeted before heading to the theater where a black-clad gunman wearing body armor opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring 58.
Late Friday, his family got confirmation of what they most dreaded: He was among the dead.
In Colorado and across the country, friends and family members of missing moviegoers anxiously awaitedword on their loved ones, hoping for good news but fearing the worst.
The final bodies were removed from the theater a little after 5 p.m. Friday (7 p.m. ET), Aurora police chief Dan Oates said at a news conference. He said police met with about 70 family members and friends to give an accounting of bodies that had been identified.
Police said families of the dead were being notified Friday night.
Late Friday, Sullivan's family said in a statement that he had been killed, the Denver Post and The Associated Pressreported. Heart-wrenching photographs taken earlier Friday showed Sullivan's father, Tom, grieving and pleading for information about his son.
"We're still hoping that he's missing somewhere and that they missed him at the hospital," Jim Schwab, Sullivan's cousin, told The Denver Post earlier Friday from his Rochester,N.Y., home, where he was gathered with 20 of Sullivan's other relatives.
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That is d wat it has always be in the states whenever such horror happens ppu usually talk and complain but what their govt does afterward, Practically norhing

Not just in the states, its practically everywhere... Govt only pay lip service to horror victims.