{"id":18999,"date":"2013-01-08T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/police-choke-recalling-colorado-massacre-041731646.html"},"modified":"2013-01-08T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T20:19:33","slug":"court-hears-frantic-911-calls-from-us-cinema-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/court-hears-frantic-911-calls-from-us-cinema-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Court hears frantic 911 calls from US cinema massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Frantic 911 calls from the US movie theater where a massacre was underway were played in court Tuesday, on the second day of hearings to decide if the alleged gunman should stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>In the first of some 41 harrowing emergency calls made in a 10-minute period in Colorado, 30 loud booms could be heard in less than 30 seconds, making it difficult for the 911 dispatcher to hear what was being said.<\/p>\n<p>In another, six minutes after the first call logged at 12:38 am, 14-year-old Kaylin Bailey told the emergency operator that her two cousins had been shot, and that one of them did not appear to be breathing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to start CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) on your cousin who&#8217;s not breathing,&#8221; said the operator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t hear you&#8221; responded Bailey, amid continuing chaos in the background in the theater in Aurora, outside Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The emotionally fraught preliminary hearings opened Monday with police describing harrowing scenes as they responded to the theater, where 25-year-old James Holmes is accused of opening fire on July 20 last year.<\/p>\n<p>A number of officers choked back tears as they testified about the night, in which 12 people were killed and dozens more injured at the midnight screening of the Batman movie &#8220;The Dark Knight Rises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Aurora massacre revived the perennial US debate over gun control &#8212; an issue re-ignited even more intensely by last month&#8217;s shooting of 20 young children at a Connecticut elementary school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frantic 911 calls from the US movie theater where a massacre was underway were played in court Tuesday, on the second day of hearings to decide if the alleged gunman should stand trial.<br \/>\nIn the first of some 41 harrowing emergency calls made in a 10-mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}