Four shot dead near scene of US cinema massacre
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An unidentified woman reacts outside a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Police survey the outside of a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. Four people died including the gunman according to police reports after several hours of failed police negotiations after the gunman barricaded himself at the home with hostages in in the same town where a man shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more at a movie theatre last July. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Police continue their investigation outside of a home following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Police survey the outside of a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Police continue their investigation outside of a home following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013.-- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An evidence marker next to a round of ammunition in the street in front of a town home where four people were killed on Saturday morning including the gunman who held police at bay for several hours at the complex on Jan 5, 2013 in Aurora, Colorado. -- PHOTO: AFP
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A police officer stands watch in front of a broken out window in a town home where four people were killed on Saturday morning including the gunman who held police at bay for several hours at the complex on Jan 5, 2013 in Aurora, Colorado. -- PHOTO: AFP
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An Aurora, Colorado police officer packs up tactical gear used to subdue a gunman who killed four people at a town home complex on Jan 5, 2013 in Aurora, Colorado. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Friends and neighbours react outside a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An unidentified woman reacts outside a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Police survey the outside of a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. Four people died including the gunman according to police reports after several hours of failed police negotiations after the gunman barricaded himself at the home with hostages in in the same town where a man shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more at a movie theatre last July. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Police continue their investigation outside of a home following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Police survey the outside of a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Police continue their investigation outside of a home following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013.-- PHOTO: REUTERS
An evidence marker next to a round of ammunition in the street in front of a town home where four people were killed on Saturday morning including the gunman who held police at bay for several hours at the complex on Jan 5, 2013 in Aurora, Colorado. -- PHOTO: AFP
A police officer stands watch in front of a broken out window in a town home where four people were killed on Saturday morning including the gunman who held police at bay for several hours at the complex on Jan 5, 2013 in Aurora, Colorado. -- PHOTO: AFP
An Aurora, Colorado police officer packs up tactical gear used to subdue a gunman who killed four people at a town home complex on Jan 5, 2013 in Aurora, Colorado. -- PHOTO: AFP
Friends and neighbours react outside a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado on Jan 5, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A gunman killed three people before police killed him in turn on Saturday in a shooting in a house in Aurora, Colorado, scene of a massacre in a cinema last year, 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 2012 after a horrific shooting at a movie theatre 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."
