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‘Dark Knight Rises’ screening shooting in suburban

Denver leaves 12 dead, 59 wounded: police

‘He said he was the Joker, enemy of Batman,’ Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, adding that the madman had also painted his hair red. The suspect – identified as James Holmes, 24, a former University of Colorado medical school student – was arrested shortly after the rampage.

BY CHRISTINA BOYLE, BRADEN GOYETTE AND RICH SCHAPIRO IN NEW YORK AND JUDITH CROSSON, TIFFANY LOPEZ AND CARLY REYNOLDS IN DENVER / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

PUBLISHED: FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012, 5:00 AM

UPDATED: FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012, 2:07 PM

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Tom Sullivan, center, embraces family members outside Gateway High School where he has been searching franticly for his son Alex Sullivan who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to see "The Dark Knight Rises," movie where a gunman opened fire Friday, July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colo.

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Tom Sullivan is embraced by family members outside Gateway High School, where he’s frantically searching for his son Alex, who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to the midnight screening where a crazed gunman opened fire.

AURORA, Colo. — The heavily armed gunman that massacred 12 people at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” near Denver boasted to cops that he was Batman’s arch nemesis.

“He said he was the Joker, enemy of Batman,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said after conferring with his counterpart in Aurora.

“He had his hair painted red,” Kelly added.

The suspect — identified as James Holmes, 24, a former University of Colorado medical school student — was arrested shortly after the rampage at a movie complex about 10 miles east of Denver.

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The gunman burst into the packed theater through an emergency door 20 minutes into the movie, set off a canister that emitted tear gas and opened fire, witnesses said.