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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: bgill

I’m not surprised. I mean - look at the spin that ABC News put on this. Their headline is a total lie. Why should cBS be any different?


81 posted on 07/20/2012 5:42:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: NYer
Kev ... I read that response. Are you a parent? If so, then you have experience with infants

I think we've seen 3 movies at a theater (without the kids of course - all 8 and under) in the last 8 years. I can't imagine bringing an infant to a theater, for both health reasons and psychological ones (for the 4 yr old). If they were too cheap to pay for a sitter, this "dad" could have gone with buddies to the movie one night, and "mom" could have done the same the next night.

On another note, this will be quite a story in that family for years and years to come. What a badge of shame - rightfully deserved, to have to carry around from hereonout. He will always be that "guy/brother/son/friend who deserted his family during the movie theater shooting". Check out the rest of his pics on the myspace page.
82 posted on 07/20/2012 5:45:39 PM PDT by kevcol
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To: Responsibility2nd

The LA Times has picked up this story. They are a little more honest about it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-colorado-shooting-mother-20120720,0,7292877.story

It credits the mother with being the hero. But it still leaves out the fact that the “dad” is a freaking coward.


83 posted on 07/20/2012 5:46:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

NOT married to the the Mother, who has a child by ANOTHER man!!!! OMG!! we are a SICK, SICK, SICK society!! WHO THE HELL takes CHILDREn out at MIDNIGHT??????????? TRASH!


84 posted on 07/20/2012 6:00:19 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: easternsky

ahhhhhh, if Obama had a son, he would look like this COWARD!!!!


85 posted on 07/20/2012 6:02:11 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

I’m guessing that you completely missed the sarcasm in my original post.


86 posted on 07/20/2012 6:04:21 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: kevcol

WHITE TRASH....and where is her 4 year old?????????


87 posted on 07/20/2012 6:05:57 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; All
So, in contrast to this guy who can't seem to find the time to commit to the woman he has slepped with for over a year -- and then took off without her or the children -- here is an account of the 19 yo who DID help this women and her two children out of the theater:
Dark Knight Rises' Shooting Victim Stopped to Help Young Mother
88 posted on 07/20/2012 6:09:04 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: Moose4
the poster child of the Obama voting bloc

How about this for the poster?

Suggested caption:
"Don't blame me! It was that guy Bush over there!"

(And thanks to kevcol for venturing into the cretin's Myspace to find such a telling photo.)

89 posted on 07/20/2012 6:12:04 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Colofornian

Thank you for posting this. I am very happy to hear that someone in this young generation still knows how to do the right thing. This woman’s “fiancé” should not be allowed to show his face in public.


90 posted on 07/20/2012 6:24:49 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: EggsAckley
slow in the noggin,

LOL

91 posted on 07/20/2012 6:32:19 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Responsibility2nd
Notice the hospital bracelet? Captain Queer (post #46) probably hurt his a$$ puckering in fear as he abandoned his family.

"where's my free universal healthcare? I'm a victim"

92 posted on 07/20/2012 6:35:32 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Timber Rattler

That is entirely possible!


93 posted on 07/20/2012 6:49:50 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: stanne

“What women put up with from males like this is revolting.”

She puts up with it because the Ding-a-ling has a ding-a-ling.


94 posted on 07/20/2012 6:54:50 PM PDT by miserare
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To: kevcol

Looking at this guy’s stupid mug, all I can say is that Darwin’s Law was suspended last night.


95 posted on 07/20/2012 7:02:30 PM PDT by miserare
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To: easternsky

On a major LBGT website, on the Sunday of all the Gay Pride parades in the country:

Obama posted one word:

PROUD!!!


96 posted on 07/20/2012 7:02:47 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Colofornian

The sperm donor should crawl on his hands and knees to the home of this young man and thank him for saving his family. The young man was shot while protecting the punk’s family.

If the gal has any brains, she’ll dump the sperm donor for the young hero. If the hero has any brains, he’ll run away from her.


97 posted on 07/20/2012 7:52:44 PM PDT by mockingbyrd
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To: ridesthemiles

For the first time in History the Military will be allowed to march in their San Diego gay pride parade in their Uniforms. They say will only be a one time thing. this sickens me. Read it yesterday on yahoo, and has taken me 24 hours before I could even put it in writing. We have sunk sooo low, no going back. Even so come quickly Lord Jesus.


98 posted on 07/20/2012 8:11:18 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: bgill

I struggle every day trying not to detest this generation of narcissists.


99 posted on 07/20/2012 8:17:08 PM PDT by freeperkiki
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To: kevcol

He should have ‘loser’ tattooed on his forehead.


100 posted on 07/20/2012 8:26:03 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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