Reddit community abuzz over Colorado movie theater shooting

July 21, 2012 05:11 am

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Within moments of the first bursts of gunfire inside a suburban Denver movie theater, the Reddit community was buzzing.

“Someone came into our theater at the midnight release of Dark Knight Rises and began opening fire,” read a posting on the user-generated news site by a “redditor” named Peener13. She described being in the theater next door in Aurora, Colo., when the shooting began and later posted a photo of her ticket to prove she was there. “Who here on Reddit can help me calm my nerves?”

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