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2012 Aurora shooting

mass shooting in a movie theater in the United States
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Summary

2012 Aurora shooting is a mass shooting[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of mass shooting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,695 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: mass murder[4]
  • Location: Century Aurora & XD[5]
  • Commons category: Aurora shooting[6]
  • Located in time zone: UTC−06:00[7]
  • Armament: AR-15–style rifle[8]
  • Point in time: July 20, 2012[9]
  • Number of deaths: 12[10]
  • Number of injured: 70[11]
  • Number of perpetrators: 1[12]
  • Perpetrator: James Holmes[13]

Why It Matters

2012 Aurora shooting has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . eu.usatoday.com. eu.usatoday.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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