article_snippet.sent: Officers who rushed to the scene of the 2012 Colorado movie theater shooting entered a hellish world of bloody victims, noxious smells and blaring sounds - a gloomy darkness pierced by bright flashes from a fire alarm, police testified Wednesday. '
article_snippet.sent: It was dim, the movie was still playing, a fire alarm was going off,' Aurora police officer Annette Brook told jurors in the trial of gunman James Holmes. '
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors called Brook and two other officers as witnesses on Wednesday, and witnesses descriptions of the chaos of inside the suburban Denver theater intensified the already disturbing scene described a day earlier by moviegoers who were badly wounded or saw loved ones gunned down in the July 20, 2012, attack.
article_snippet.sent: The third day of the trial against suspected Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooter gunman James Holmes continued on Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: Twelve people were killed and 70 hurt when gunman James Holmes allegedly opened fire on a packed theater in Aurora, Colorado for a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in July 2012.
article_snippet.sent: Above, the scene of the suburban Denver theater after the shooting .
article_snippet.sent: He went to the movie, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' at the Century 16 multiplex in the Denver suburb of Aurora with friends who had just returned from their honeymoon in Florida.
article_snippet.sent: About 15 or 20 minutes into the film, a tear gas canister was thrown into the theater, and then the shooting started.
highlights_snippet.sent: Victims of the 2012 Colorado movie theater shooting testified in court on Wednesday as the trial of suspect James Holmes continued .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Police officers who responded to the scene also spoke in court about the incident which resulted in the deaths of 12 moviegoers .
  