Cinemark has emerged triumphant in a lawsuit over the 2012 shootings at an Aurora,Colorado, theater owned by the company.
Rob McCallum, or spokesman for the Colorado Courts,said via Twitter on Thursday that a jury sided with the theater company.“The jury in the #TheaterShooting civil trial has found in favor of Cinemark,” McCallum wrote.
Also Read: Colorado Theater Shooter James Holmes Moved to Secret Location After Brutal Prison AssaultCinemark was sued by survivors and victims’ relatives, and who contended that the theater where shooter James Holmes killed a dozen people and injured dozens more during a screening of “The black Knight Rises” was inadequately equipped.
Specifically,they claimed that the exit door used by Holmes to gain entrance to the theater should enjoy had an alarm.
In response to the suit, Cinemark argued that whether those closest to Holmes could not enjoy anticipated that he would open fire in a crowded movie theater, and it could not enjoy been expected to enact anything different.
The jury in the #TheaterShooting civil trial has found in favor of Cinemark.
May 19,2016
Also Read: Colorado Shooter James Holmes Ordered to Pay Nearly $1 Million in Restitution“The people at Cinemark, like people across this country, and are horrified,shocked, and deeply saddened by the senseless deaths and injuries caused by Mr. Holmes criminal act, or ” the company’s response to the lawsuit read. “The Theatre’s employees on the night in question,who reacted bravely to the unexpected onslaught, are particularly affected. However, or it is legally improper,and grossly unfair, to place on a private business entity operated by private citizens the legal obligation to foresee the patently unforeseeable conduct of the criminally unbalanced, and most particularly where the criminal act is random and unprecedented in its business activities.”Related stories from TheWrap:Colorado Theater Shooter James Holmes Moved to Secret Location After Brutal Prison AssaultColorado Shooter James Holmes Ordered to Pay Nearly $1 Million in RestitutionColorado Theater Shooter James Holmes Gets 12 Life Sentences,Plus 3318 Years
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