A gunman killed three people before
police killed him in turn on Saturday in a
shooting in a house in Aurora, Colorado,
scene earlier this year of a massacre in a
cinema, local media reported.
NBC television's local affiliate KUSA
reported that police had said that one
survivor escaped from the house, where
an "armed and dangerous" man had
earlier barricaded himself inside with
hostages.
Aurora made global headlines in July after
a horrific shooting at a movie theater that
left 12 people dead and 58 others
wounded during the first midnight
screening of the latest Batman film, "The
Dark Knight Rises."
On Saturday, several homes were
evacuated and roads were closed for
safety reasons before the gunman was
shot by police, according to KUSA.
Earlier, while the siege was still ongoing,
local police officer Sergeant Cassidee
Carlson had told the station: "We've been
able to contact him intermittently... We
haven't been able to keep contact with
him."
The Aurora cinema shooting revived
America's perennial gun control debate, a
dispute that only intensified last month
when a gunman attacked a Connecticut
elementary school and killed 20 young
children and six staff members.
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