The following is a transcript of the first 30 minutes of the call log from Aurora Police Department dispatch tapes after the fatal shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
1:00:07 315 and 314, first shooting at century theatres, 14 300 East Alameda avenue, they’re saying somebody’s shooting in the auditorium. 01:00:16
01:00:30 315 and 314 there is at least 1 person that’s been shot but they’re saying there’s hundreds of people just running around. 01:00:36
01:03:42 315 be advised i think somebody’s sprayed some gas over there too. 01:03:46
01:03:59 316 I need a rescue in here hot, see we got a guy shot. Inside of theater 9? Just outside of theater 9. 01:04:08
01:04:25 Team 6 we got another person outside shot in the leg, a female, i got people running outside the theater that are shot in room 9. 01:04:33
01:04:39 318 I got another victim on the north side of this theater the parking lot. 01:04:43
01:05:05 From what I’m smelling inside I can – smells like it’s OC, maybe 2
01:05:14 Get us some damn gas masks for theater 9 we can’t get in it
01:06:14 16 I need a marked car behind the theater stable side,suspect in a gas mask. 01:06:22
01:06:50 Everyone hold the air one second, cars where that white car in the rear of the lot, is that a suspect? YES! we’ve got rifles, gas masks, you can see him I’ve got a open door going into the theater, OK hold that position, hold that suspect! 01:07:05
01:09:23 16 I got 7 down in theater 9! & down! 01:09:28
01:09:58 one of the shooters might be wearing a white and blue plaid shirt 01:10:03
01:10:09 I’ve got a child victim, I need rescue at the back door of theater 9 now! 01:10:13
01:12:29 (woman crying hysterically, help!) 01:12:34 (heard in the background; it’s a woman with a groaning cry)
01:13:07 I’ve got one victim eviscerated 01:13:09
01:14:21 I need somebody to shut this movie off in 9, how do we shut the movie off in 9?
01:14:29 Everybody get on this, it’s an assault rifle, we got magazines down inside, everybody watch out for the assault rifle. 01:14:35
01:14:55 Do I have permission to start taking some of these victims via car? We’ve got a whole bunch of people shot out here and no rescue … yes, load ‘em up, get ‘em in cars, get ‘em out of here.
01:15:08 We have one we cannot move in theater 9
01:15:23 Notify all the hospitals we’ve got people coming in
01:16:12 If they are mobile, get them outside. We’ve got a few that are not mobile.
01:23:47 The guy’s still in theater 9 I’m working on a backboards for that female. 01:23:51
01:25:01 Suspect is going to be male, unknown race, black camo outside outfit believed to be wearing a vest, gas mask and multiple long guns. 01:25:10