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Couple in Colo. Theater Shooting Escape With Baby and Toddler in Tow (Actually Dad Runs Away!)
ABC News ^ | 07/20/2012 | BY LANA ZAK

Posted on 07/20/2012 3:33:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

A young couple who'd recently moved from New Mexico and were attending the Aurora, Colo., midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" with their children said they had planned to sit in the front row by the exit in which a gunman entered and allegedly killed at least 12 people.

"Where the gunman came in, we were going to sit right there," Jamie Rohrs, 25, told ABC News today. "God was definitely with us and watching over us."

Rohrs said that before the movie started, he and his fiancee, Patricia Legarreta, also 25, opted for seats in the second-floor balcony. Rohrs held their 4-month-old son, Ethan, while Legarreta sat next to her 4-year-old daughter, Azeria, who was asleep with her head in her mother's lap.

Fifteen minutes into the movie, Legarreta said, someone walked into the theater from the exit and threw something. Police now allege that James Holmes, 24, burst into the movie house and started shooting patrons, killing at least 12 and injuring at least 50.

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"I'm just disoriented after I put him down," Rohrs said. "I'm just waiting for me to hit the ground and fall down dead. You could see the gunfire."

He said he wondered where Ethan was but realized he could not go back to get him. Rohrs finally jumped over the balcony and ended up outside.

"My son's still in there," he told ABC News. "My girlfriend is still in there. I'm out here. Who leaves their child there?"

He said Legarreta called him from another phone and he drove back to the theater. They were eventually taken to the hospital and released.

In an interview with ABC News, Legaretta said she just ran as fast as she could with the baby and her daughter when the gunshots stopped.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aurora; aurorashooting; colorado; cowardice; fatherhood; frontpage; jamesholmes; jamierohrs; leftwingmassmurder; manhood; shooting
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To: swpa_mom

My God, the sperm donor ran off and left two babies behind....only after he was safe did he “think” about his children..

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Not only RAN off, but DROVE off. She had to call him to drive back and pick them up, while she was bleeding from a gunshot wound.

They both need to be slapped. Him for being who he is and her to knock some sense into her.


61 posted on 07/20/2012 4:37:53 PM PDT by reaganaut (VAB! Voting against both Romney and Obama.)
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To: kevcol

Sweet little baby. Stoooopid parents.


62 posted on 07/20/2012 4:41:09 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ve helped someone out before. You know little stuff like pick something up for them or whatever. If someone is with me they usually smile or say that was nice of you.
Once in awhile I get someone who says,”why’d you do that?”


63 posted on 07/20/2012 4:41:53 PM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the Statist)
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To: dfwgator
Which of course means that anyone who watches instantly turns into a mass-murderer.

What did you mean by that? I just don't think it's probably a great film for toddlers and young kids.

64 posted on 07/20/2012 4:43:25 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Wow, I'm stunned. HE jumps over the balcony and escapes. This girl needs to rethink her relationship.
65 posted on 07/20/2012 4:45:37 PM PDT by Deb (If you wanna laugh everyday, follow Deepak Chopra on Twitter)
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To: SandyInSeattle
I hope she rethinks marrying this guy after he left her and his infant son in the theatre.

What'd you expect? His (lack of) commitment to her has been evident for quite some time now...they have a 4-month old son, which means they've been sleeping together for over a year now...and still no wedding ring on her finger...

He's been running solo for quite some time...and it's the spirit of the age for way too many single women to cater to all that...

66 posted on 07/20/2012 4:48:11 PM PDT by Colofornian (Saying Mitt would keep past political promises is like prophesying that Gumby won't bend anymore)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“God was definitely with us and watching over us.”

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Well, then, how about you listen to God’s rules? You are supposed to marry the woman before you live with her and make babies, moron.

What in the world are children doing at a midnight movie? These little ones should be sleeping in their beds at such an hour.


67 posted on 07/20/2012 4:49:23 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
This is the age of Feminism.

She is supposed to save him.

There are no male heroes these days.

68 posted on 07/20/2012 4:54:14 PM PDT by donna (Conservatives believe in God, Family, Country. Not money, money, money.)
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To: kevcol

Someone needs to get that baby boy away from that man and the mother before he grows up to be just like his “dad.” I put dad in quotes because he is obviously not behaving like a real father or dad. Strangers did more for the baby, mom and sister than that man.

That he has the nerve to boast about his actions to the media is mind boggling. There are no words for that sperm donor. No words at all.


69 posted on 07/20/2012 4:54:55 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: NYer

thank you!!!
GET A SITTER. It’s rated R for a reason. Asshats.


70 posted on 07/20/2012 4:55:12 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( I miss George Bush. Hell, I miss Bill Clinton!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What the hell ... x2?

What the Hell #1: What kind of idiots take small children to a movie like this at that time of night?

What the Hell #2: The father ran away like a little girl? Hope she kicks this loser to the curb ASAP.


71 posted on 07/20/2012 4:59:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: kevcol

The chick looks a little, er,.....slow in the noggin, if you know what I mean. Quite a pair. The future of America.

*SIGH*


72 posted on 07/20/2012 5:07:22 PM PDT by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! ! ..)
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To: Labyrinthos

I wonder if he stopped off for Jujyfruit.


73 posted on 07/20/2012 5:08:33 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Bigg Red

Well, then, how about you listen to God’s rules? You are supposed to marry the woman before you live with her and make babies, moro

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Right before Mr. R and I got married, I ran into a girl we went to High School with. I told her I was getting married in a few weeks and to whom and she asked “How many kids do you guys have?” She was shocked when I said “none” and asked “Why are you getting married then?”.

She also couldn’t grasp that we didn’t live together either (he moved in after we got back from our honeymoon).


74 posted on 07/20/2012 5:13:26 PM PDT by reaganaut (VAB! Voting against both Romney and Obama.)
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To: kevcol
Kev ... I read that response. Are you a parent? If so, then you have experience with infants (one of the children is 4 months old). I don't go to the movies on a regular basis because of the LOUD SOUND SYSTEMS. Perhaps, an adult, accustomed to this, could sleep (my adult daughter qualifies) .. but, an infant? Subjecting an infant to such LOUD sounds can have detrimental effects on their ear drums.

I repeat: What sort of parent would subject their young children to a situation that could have detrimental effects on their nervous systems?! Selfish parents, who are thinking only of themselves.

75 posted on 07/20/2012 5:22:21 PM PDT by NYer (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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To: kevcol
"We just moved here from New Mexico," he said. "We have to go out. We have to do things.

With two kids they've done plenty of things already. Why not get married, raise the children and let them sleep in their own beds at midnight.

76 posted on 07/20/2012 5:22:48 PM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“My son’s still in there,” he told ABC News. “My girlfriend is still in there. I’m out here. Who leaves their child there?”

Someone who is no kind of man at all.


77 posted on 07/20/2012 5:24:07 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Timber Rattler
I think his girlfriend can probably do much better.

Really?!

She took her 4 month-old baby to a midnight movie showing, of Batman! I wonder what she gave the child to make it sleep through 130 dBs?

Aside from being potentially harmful to her child, it was incredibly rude to the other, adult patrons. I can't believe the theater let her bring her in.

But she just HAD to hit that first showing! What a selfish idiot.

78 posted on 07/20/2012 5:30:36 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Responsibility2nd

OMG! Did you just see CBS news? They edited his interview and claimed he had gotten his family out himself. LIARS!!! How in blazes can there be so many liars in the msm where no one among them can tell the truth about anything?


79 posted on 07/20/2012 5:30:47 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Responsibility2nd

I am about the furthest thing from a badass you will ever find on this Earth. But this douchebag makes me look like Chuck Freaking Norris.

Fathers a kid with her, shacks up with her, drags small children to a midnight showing of a loud, gory R-rated movie, and then runs like hell instead of trying to defend her and the kids. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Permanent Adolescent, the poster child of the Obama voting bloc.

}:-)4


80 posted on 07/20/2012 5:31:23 PM PDT by Moose4 (...and walk away.)
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