mes wearing a helmet, gas mask and body armor fired a shot into the ceiling, and advanced,

d, shooting up the packed theaters center stairs, they realized death its elf was stalking them. You could not see anything but the persons eyes, moviegoer Corbin Dates told a loca l TV reporter. He looked like he was a member of SWAT he was fully geared out, fully decked out in guns, remembered Kenneth Tre Freeman, 18, who was sitting in the fourth row. And then you just start hearing Boom, boom, boom, boom! And people start screaming and running, remembered Sumrall, a Baton Rouge, La., native whod stopped in Aurora while traveling home from Seattle. She and her friend, Pourciau, who would be shot in the lower leg, had gone to th e midnight premiere on a lark. Even then, she didnt think the bullets could be real until I got out, Sumrall said, and saw people bleeding. I felt something hit my left arm, and my first thought was, At least its just my ar m, remembered Adam Witt. TWEETS FROM THE BATMAN MASSACRE RAMPAGE ECHOES COMIC-BOOK PLOT EX-FINEST IN CHARGE AT AURORA Many cowered on the floor,. Others including Freeman, who escaped unscathed from the fourth row made the risky decision to run. He was literally just massacring anybody that got up that was trying to run away, moviegoer Jennifer Seeger told a local TV reporter. The first moviegoers to flee called 911, even as the tragedy, like the movie, co ntinued to unspool. Theyre saying somebodys shooting in the auditorium, came the first police radio disp atch, at 12:38 a.m., according to a transcript released by the authorities. Arriving police reported seeing hundreds of people pouring from the theater, inc luding the walking, bleeding wounded. Inside, the dead lay in a lingering cloud of smoke that one witness compared to the smell of July 4th firecrackers. Get us some damn gas masks for Theater 9! one cop shouted, according to the dispat ch transcript. We cant get in! Ive got one victim eviscerated, shouted another cop, at 1:15 a.m. A minute later, another cop gave voice to the wishes of all the moviegoers if on ly the carnage could have been contained to the screen itself. I need somebody to shut this movie off in 9, the officer shouted. How do we shut th e movie off in 9? Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/lord_please_protect_us_RfHW9nOe qk0TmFmgQ5CHAL#ixzz21I0jVLqN