After Colorado Theater Shooting, Show Goes On at Galaxy 16 in Cedar Rapids

Marion residents planning to see the new Batman blockbuster, The Dark Night Rises, will still have that option today, the morning after a tragedy in Colorado left 12 people dead. 

Our closest venue showing the film is Cedar Rapids Galaxy 16 Cine. The theater is not changing its slate of Dark Night show times, which run roughly every half hour from 10:30 a.m. to 11:35 p.m. This is the opening day for the highly anticipated movie.

Some theaters around the country are stepping up security for the film today, but a staffer at the Cedar Rapids theater, who declined to give her name, said they were not changing any plans.

In Colorado, a lone gunman entered an Aurora movie theater during the first showing of the Dark Night early this morning and opened fire on the audience, killing 12 people and injuring dozens more.

The suspect has been identified as , who is from San Diego and more recently dropped out of a doctoral program at the University of Colorado Medical School campus in Aurora.