Jamie Rohrs and Patricia Legarreta had their baby and toddler in tow while they
watched a midnight viewing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., when
James Holmes allegedly entered and shot at least 12 people to death.
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.
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Oh really?
I'd like to investigate for EBT, TANF, Sect 8, and a few other taxpayer funded benefits....
She’ll find an excuse for him. That’s what codependent women do best.
I submit this "man" for the "Ted Kennedy medal of valor"
She’s an idiot for bringing the kids and he’s an idiot loser chump for abandoning his child, a nobody....how stupid to go on national news and tell the world you left your kid?
The guy’s a creep.
Not to mention a pussy.
The article quoted them as saying that “they figured the children would sleep through the movie” , but your answer of selfish does sum it up well.
The dip shit dropped his kid and ran? Holy crap! You need to run off and come back with a piece of that guy’s jugular vein in your mouth, just to show the kids how it’s done.
The dip shit dropped his kid and ran? Holy crap! You need to run off and come back with a piece of that guy’s jugular vein in your mouth, just to show the kids how it’s done.
This young lady might consider finding another male to sire her children.
Yes, you read it correctly. She was left inside with both kids.
Wow you got that right.
Rohrs said the two took their children to the show because they figured they'd sleep through it. "We just moved here from New Mexico," he said. "We have to go out. We have to do things.
Obama Nation.
So the Baby Daddy left the Baby Mama and their children to fend for themselves while he took off...
I give you American Manhood Circa 2012: leave the woman you never bothered to marry with children you’ll eventually abandon (at a midnight movie way past the kids’ bedtime) to save your sorry behind so you can find another ho.
I am amazed that people take infants to midnight movie showings. WTF?
Spot on!!!
And he’s even willing to admit it to the media!
http://www.facebook.com/jamie.rohrs
“I threw my daughter on the floor,” she said. “I just remember thinking my fiance has my son.”
Legarreta said she was wounded in her leg as she stood to move her daughter in front of her. “When I got hit, I fell to the floor,” she said.
Legarreta said she had shrapnel in her leg from the upper thigh to the ankle. From the floor, she said, she could see her 4-month-old baby on the ground near the stairs. Legarreta said she did not know the whereabouts of Rohrs.
“At that point, I reached out and I grabbed him and pulled him in to me,” she said. “I didn’t even check my leg until we were out in the parking lot.”
Rohrs, who had Ethan, said he jumped over the seat with the baby in his arms. He said he considered lying on the ground and playing dead but feared for his son’s life.
“He’s crying,” Rohrs said. “People are running all over. He’s crying. I look up to see if I can run. I’m ducking, dodging, turning left, turning right.
“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.”
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