Sports blogger Jessica Redfield killed in Colorado movie shooting

Jessica Redfield was among those killed in the Colorado shooting.

Jessica Redfield, an aspiring TV sports reporter who blogged about hockey for the sports website Busted Coverage, was one of the people killed in a mass shooting during a midnight showing of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” at a theater in Aurora, Colo., according to multiple reports.

Redfield, whose real name was Jessica Ghawi, tweeted from the Aurora Town Center Century 16 Movie Theaters on Thursday night, shortly before the shooting. Witnesses said a lone gunman entered the theater through an emergency exit and began shooting people, killing 12 and injuring at least 50, according to ABC News. The suspect, 24-year-old James Holmes, was caught by police in the parking of the theater.

Redfield, who relocated to Denver from her home in San Antonio about a year ago, had a brush with death one month earlier. She was in Toronto’s Eaton Centre shopping mall in on June 2 and left the food court moments before a gunman opened fire there, and she wrote about that experience.

One Comments for “Sports blogger Jessica Redfield killed in Colorado movie shooting”

1. Tony M Says:
   July 21st, 2012 at 6:44 am

   I just read this girl had escaped the Toronto killings in Canada a few weeks ago only to be killed here. That’s devastating…

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