Didn’t anyone notice something odd about someone walking into a movie theater in body armor and a gas mask, with all sorts of weaponry? There was a time when one went to the movies to see the show, not to be the show.
He didn’t walk into the theater with that getup on. He bought a ticket, walked in dressed normally, sat down, watched the movie for 15-20 minutes, then made his way to the exit door that leads to the parking lot, and slipped out after fixing the door so it would not latch behind him. He went to his vehicle which was parked near the exit door and put on his gear, and gathered the weapons. Then he returned to the exit door, opened it and tossed in the smoke cannisters as he came back inside.
I think he came in the theater the “normal” way, propped open an exit door in his particular show, went to his car (obviously it was dark at midnight), got the munitions, and came back in through the exit.
I’ve been in a number of these multiplex theaters where the exit doors go to a corridor that doesn’t exit through the lobby.
Some of the video of after the shooting has folks dressed up like Batman, the Joker, all sorts of costumes. He probly fit right in, until he started tossing tear gas grenades and blasting people.
He bought a ticket wearing regular street cloths, went out the exit door and apparently jammed it open, put on his gear then went back in.
The problem is the military type clothing cops now wear. When a guy comes in dressed in assault gear we’ve been conditioned to automatically think it’s a cop.
You really have to research before saying stuff like this.
He kicked in the rear outside emergency exit door.
He came in the theatre from the emergency exit.
He came in from behind the theatre building through the fire exit of theatre 9 and started shooting. There may have been people who thought it odd, but the shooting started immediately upon entry.