4.30pmUniversity of Colorado at Denver has confirmed to KMGH Channel 7 that suspect James Holmes was doing a PhD in neuroscience but withdrew last month.
4.25pmFamily of Denver shooting suspect James Holmes have released a statement. We'll bring it to you as soon as we get it.
3.50pmPolice say explosives in suspect's apartment appear to be "very sophisticated".
3.44pm
Police have confirmed that the suspected gunman's apartment near Denver is "booby-trapped". Five apartment blocks nearby are believed to have been evacuated.
3.29pmWarner Bros. have released a statement after announcing that the Paris premiere of The Dark Knight Rises would be cancelled in light of the tragedy in Denver. Workers are pulling down the red carpet display at a theatre on the famed Champs-Elysees Avenue.
In a statement, the studio said: "Warner Bros. and the filmmakers are deeply saddened to learn about this shocking incident. We extend our sincere sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims at this tragic time."
3.02pmShooting victim Jessica Redfield wrote about escaping the Eaton Mall gun attack in Toronto on her blog
2.56pmChandler Brannon, 25, has told ABC News that he survived by "playing dead" when the gunman stormed the cinema:
"About 20 minutes into the film I saw a smoke bomb come from the middle of the theatre and it was thrown across to the other side of the theatre. Then I saw what I thought was fireworks and I thought it was some kids lighting up a firework and I looked up and realised it was a gunshot.
"Me and my girlfriend ducked down behind the chairs with a lot of other people...we stayed down behind the chairs because we were afraid to get up and we played dead.
"We could hear screaming and chairs being broken around us so we just figured we would stay down. There were about 50 to 75 gun shots, we were playing dead for about 45 seconds or a minute."
2.50pm
Read the full, haunting story of victim Jessica Ghawi (Jessica Redfield), who tweeted from the cinema moments before she was gunned down. The tragic sports presenter cheated death last month when she was present at the time of a fatal shooting at a mall in Canada.
2.42pm:A spokesman for the Medical centre in Aurora has said they received 15 patients - 12 with gunshot wounds and three suffering from the effects of chemical exposure. Seven people have been admitted to hospital and four are in a critical condition.
2pm:A 911 call has been released of the Denver cinema shootings. At one point during the recording a policeman says: "I've got a child victim. I need backdoor rescue now."
2pm:New York City Police say they will be increasing security at all "The Dark Night Rises" screenings tonight as "as a precaution against copycats and to raise the comfort levels among movie patrons."
1.58pmWitness Rachel Fedeli tells Sky News: "It was about 15 minutes into the movie, during an intense scene in the film. We heard a pop and then there was a big cloud of smoke. No-one was sure that it wasn't an effect from the movie. Then we heard another pop and the shooting began."
1.58pmIt has emerged that victim Jessica Redfield had cheated death in the Eaton Centre Mall shooting in Toronto last month. She left the food court just moments before the attack, which killed one and injured several others.
1.50pmABC News has reported that they have spoken to the mother of suspect gunman James Holmes.
The woman in San Diego said she was unaware of the shooting, but added: "Y"ou have the right person. I need to call the police... I need to fly out to Colorado."
1.45pmWarner Bros has postponed a red carpet premiere scheduled to take place in Paris tonight with cast members.
1.42pmJessica's brother Jordan confirmed her death on Twitter telling his followers: “This could easily be the worst night of my life. It appears that my sister has been fatally wounded in a mass shooting at a movie premiere in Denver, CO.”
1.40pmOne of the victims killed in the massacre has been named as aspiring sports television presenter Jessica Redfield.
She sent haunting tweets from inside the cinema minutes before she was shot dead writing: "Movie doesn’t start for 20 minutes!”.
1.30pmWarner Bros have issued a statement saying they are "deeply saddened to learn about this shocking incident."
1.28pmChayelle Jackson was in the front row of the cinema when the gunman burst in.
He told Sky: "It was a nightmare. It was traumatising.
"A guy appeared all in black with a mask on. He threw a tear gas bomb. At first I thought it was special effects, then it blew up like a bomb.
"I looked back over and he started pulling out a rifle and started massacring people.
"I ran out ran out and could hear people screaming and babies crying."
1.26pmThe death toll has now been revised and lowered to 12, as opposed to 14 as previously reported. Aurora Police spokesman Frank Fania told NBC News that 10 of the victims died in the theatre and two died in the hospital.
Law enforcement officials gather outside the Century 16 Theatre where a masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in Aurora
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1.22pmRepublican nominee Mitt Romney has said he is "deeply saddened by the news of the senseless violence".
1.21pm
Five busloads of witnesses have been taken to a local high school to be interviewed by police.
Jacob Stevens, 18, hugs his mother Tammi Stevens after being interview by police outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning after a shooting at a movie theater
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1.20pmUS Media are reporting that the suspect in the Denver Batman shooting is 24-year-old James Holmes.
1.18pm
Chuck Murphy from the Denver Post said that he had been told by witnesses that the gunman had been spotted before the film showing outside the cinema.
"People saw him before the screening. There were lots of people dressed in costume and so nobody thought anything of it."
A police officer stands near the Century 16 Theatre where a masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman
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1.14pmChuck Murphy of the Denver Post reporting that the youngest victim of the cinema shooting is a three month old baby, according to latest information from University of Colorado Hospital.
1.10pmHere is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents carried out by one or two gunmen around the world in the last 25 years:
March 13, 1996, Britain: Gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shot dead 16 children and their teacher before killing himself.
April 28, 1996, Australia: Martin Bryant unleashed modern Australia's worst mass murder when he shot dead 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in the southern state of Tasmania.
April 1999, United States: Two heavily-armed teenagers went on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Denver, shooting 13 students and staff before taking their own lives.
July 1999, United States: A gunman killed nine people at two brokerages in Atlanta, after apparently killing his wife and two children. He committed suicide five hours later.
June 2001, Nepal: Eight members of the Nepalese Royal family were killed in a palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra who later turned a gun on himself and died few days later. His youngest brother also died later raising the death toll to 10.
April 26, 2002, Germany: In Erfurt, eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after saying he was not going to take a math test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
Oct. 2002, United States: John Muhammad and Lee Malvo killed 10 people in sniper-style shooting deaths that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area.
April 16, 2007, United States: Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the site of the deadliest rampage in U.S. history when a gunman killed 32 people and himself.
Nov. 7, 2007, Finland: Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed six fellow students, the school nurse, the principal and himself with a handgun at the Jokela High School near Helsinki.
Sept. 23, 2008, Finland: Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
March 11, 2009, Germany: A 17-year-old gunman dressed in combat gear killed nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart. He also killed one other person at a nearby clinic. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two additional passers-by were killed and two policemen seriously injured, bringing the death toll to 16 including the gunman.
June 2, 2010, Britain: Gunman Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria. Twelve people were killed and 11 injured. Bird also killed himself.
April 9, 2011, Netherlands: Tristan van der Vlis opened fire in the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six before turning the gun on himself.
July 22, 2011, Norway: Police seize a gunman who killed 69 people at a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling political party, on the small, holiday island of Utoeya. Anders Behring Breivik is later charged with the killings, as well as with an earlier bombing in Oslo which killed eight people. The trial ended last month with Breivik saying that his bombing and shooting rampage was necessary to defend the country - prompting a walk-out by relatives of his victims.
Dec. 13, 2011, Belgium: Gunman Nordine Armani killed three people, including a 17-month-old toddler, wounding 121 in a central square in the eastern city of Liege, before shooting himself. The next day Belgian investigators found the body of a woman in warehouse used by the gunman raising the death toll, including the killer, to five.
July 20, 2012, United States: A masked gunman killed 14 people and wounded 50 others when he opened fire on moviegoers at a showing of new Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in the city of Denver.
12.57pm
The shooting in Denver has sparked a lot of debate on Twitter about gun laws in America...
Piers Morgan "@piersmorgan: More Americans will buy guns after this, to defend themselves, and so the dangerous spiral descends. When/how does it stop?#Colorado"
Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland "@j_freedland: Some ask if Denver will prompt calls for gun control: just as many in US will argue victims would have been safe if armed"
12.52pmEyewitnesses have described the gunman as wearing a gas mask and body armour, which bears eerie similarities to Batman villain Bane...
Masked Terror - Bane
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12.40pmInteresting opinion piece from The Telegraph's film critic Robbie Collin on why the The Dark Knight can't be blamed for inspiring the Denver killer.
12.33pmHere's some images from the scene so far at the cinema in Denver. You can see moviegoers dressed as Batman and some with bloodsoaked clothes outside the complex.
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12.22pmPolice spokesman Frank Fania has told reporters that the suspect was carrying a knife, a rifle and a handgun when arrested. One other gun was recovered from the cinema. The gunman was also wearing a bulletproof vest.
He added: "He did not resist, he did not put up a fight."
12.20pmA local radio station in Denver is reporting that the suspect gunman is aged 24.
12.15pmWendy Post, who was waiting to be reunited with her daughter at a local high school, said her daughter told her the shooting erupted just minutes after the film began.
Mrs Post told 9News television: "She saw the exit door open and something was thrown across the screen, and then shooting started. It was chaos."
12.12pmDenver Police say shooting death toll could rise.
12.15pmBarack Obama's full statement on the shootings:
"Michelle and I are shocked and saddened by the horrific and tragic shooting in Colorado. Federal and local law enforcement are still responding and my administration will do everything we can to support the people of Aurora in this extraordinarily difficult time. We are committed to bringing whoever was responsible to justice, ensuring the safety of our people, and caring for those who have been wounded. As we do when confronted by moments of darkness and challenge, we must now come together as one American family. All of us must have the people of Aurora in our thoughts and prayers as they confront the loss of family, friends, and neighbors, and we must stand together with them in the challenging hours and days to come."
12.10pmPresident Barack Obama has said he is "shocked and saddened by horrific and tragic shooting"
12.05pmHere's a round-up of the this morning's tragic events in Denver...
* At 12.30am local time a masked gunman dressed all in black and wearing body armour and a gas mask opened fire in the Century 16 cinema at the Aurora shopping complex as Batman "The Dark Knight Rises" began
* The gunman released tear gas inside the theatre before calmly spraying bullets across the room
* 14 people were killed and up to 50 others were injured including a six-year-old child
* Police arrested a suspect near to a car behind the movie theatre. He had on him a gas mask, rifle and handgun
* He told police he had explosives at his apartment
11.59pmThe youngest victim of the massacre is believed to be a six-year-old being treated at Children's Hospital Colorado, where a total of six victims were taken. Their condition was not yet known.
11.52amHere's two witnesses talking to local reporter Jeremy Jojola, describing the horrific scenes at the cinema in Denver...
11.44amAnother witness told how he feared he wouldn't get out of the theatre without getting shot. He said: "I felt a splatter on my back. I didn't know... I didn't feel anything but I thought maybe somebody behind me had got shot. But it was just water... we're really thankful nothing happened to us."
11.40amEyewitnesses have told how the gunman "looked so calm it was scary". Trey Freeman said the suspect entered the theatre from the emergency exit and, without saying a word, fire his gun into the air before throwing tear gas into the audience and firing indiscriminately.
11.30amHere is the shocking mobile phone footage caught as people ran screaming from the cinema in Aurora as the gunman continued his rampage.
11.23amEyewitness James Cameron was in an adjacent cinema when the attack happened.
He told Fox News that there were so many guns going off that he thought there were three or four gunman at first.
He said: "There were multiple calibres going off. It was crazy, a nightmare of a night.
"I saw a baby girl struck in the back. It will stay with me for the rest of my life seeing a mother holding her child.
"There were injured people all over the place. It was utter commotion."
11.18amWitness Chris Jones who was in cinema 9 has told the DenverChannel.com that he didn't see the gunman, he only saw a spark in the corner of the theatre.
"The lights never came on.
"When the shooting cleared, we just ran. When we got outside, it was chaos."
Jones said he heard 20 to 30 rounds in a minute or two.
11.13amNews coming in from hospitals in Denver with a spokeswoman for Swedish Hospital said they went on alert at 1:15 a.m. and began calling in extra staff. Swedish Hospital received three patients, all of them with gunshot wounds. Two patients were in surgery as of 4am. Those victims are a 20-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man. The third victim was treated and released.
11.11amSky News showing live pictures of bomb disposal robot examining boot of suspect's car in cinema car park.
11.00amSky News broadcasting mobile phone footage recorded at the Century Aurora 16 Movie Theater showing bloodied moviegoers staggering through the foyer as mass panic ensued. One man shown with blood seeping from his shoulder being escorted out by a police officer. Some filmgoers shown wearing Batman outfits, suggesting a man in a mask and body armour would not have looked out of place.
10.55amSpeculation of a second gunman seem to have arisen from reports of people being injured in a second movie theatre. Suggestions that people in adjacent screening were injured by bullets passing through walls of theatre where the known gunman opened fire. It has been suggested the suspect may have had a high-velocity weapon.
10.50amIt's understood that some off-duty police officers were in the cinema and were involved in the arrest.
10.45am
Suspect has indicated that there may be explosives in a Hyundai parked in the car park at the cinema.
a robot checking a Hyundai vehicle in the car park for an explosive device
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10.40am
Sky News broadcasting pictures from the scene in Aurora...
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10.35amReports coming from Denver suggesting an apartment block in the city has been cordoned off amid concerns there are explosive devices inside the property. Suspect in custody is believed to have told police he had explosives at home.
10.30amPolice confirm one suspect is in custody. He was detained near to a car behind the movie theatre and found to be carrying a gas mask, rifle and handgun. Police added that there is currently "no evidence" of a second gunman but are "concerned" and trying to obtain more information.
10.27amDeath toll currently confirmed at 14. Ten people are known to have been killed in the shooting inside the theatre. A police spokesman confirmed another four have died on the way to hospital.
10.25amHere's a Google aerial view of Denver, Colorado, where the massacre occurred at the Batman screening.
Denver shooting
10.20amSky Sources reporting that the FBI is considering raising national security level across the United States following Denver shooting.
10.15amAnother witness has told CNN he saw a "guy slowly making his way up the stairs and firing, picking random people". Local hospitals were alerted to a "mass casualty incident" and police are believed to be taking casualties to hospital in their own squad cars. Emergency service units from across the area, as far as Boulder, have been drafted in to the scene.
10.12am
Tweet from Mirror columnist Tony Parsons: @TonyParsonsUK Sickening images of the innocent slaughtered in Aurora shooting - you wonder what atrocity it will take before America lays down its guns.
10.10amPolice in Denver are believed to be searching the car park and the complex amid fears of an explosive device.
10.00amEyewitness Justin Joseph told media in Denver that as the film was about to start a moviegoer stood up and turned to face the audience wearing a gas mask and body armour. Witnesses heard two loud bangs which turned out to be tear gas. As mass panic broke out, people started to run and the gunman opened fire on "moving targets". Children are believed to be among the injured and the dead, including a baby who was shot "at point blank range".
9.50amDenver radio stations reporting that the attack took place at the midnight screening of the film, shortly after the trailers had finished, just as the film was about to start. It is believed shootings took place at two separate screens.
9.45amReports suggesting the Century Aurora 16 Movie Theater has been completely locked down with huge police presence amid speculation one of the gunmen is still inside the building. Four children are believed to be among those injured.
9.30amReports coming from Denver radio station KOA say that two masked gunman have shot dead 10 people and wounded 30 to 40 others at a showing of new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" at a movie theatre in the U.S. city of Denver. Reports say a figure in a gas mask had opened fire at the showing in a mall in the suburb of Aurora and set off a smoke or tear gas bomb.
9.10am
Reports coming out of Denver that 10 people have been shot dead at a Batman film screening
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