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Memorials begin for Colo. theater shooting victims

By Kristen Wyatt
Published July 25, 2012 4:00am ET
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Memorials begin for Colo. theater shooting victims
Flowers arrive as a portrait is seen at the entrance for at a memorial service for Gordon Cowden Wednesday, July 25, 2012 in Denver. Cowden was one of 12 people killed, and over 50 wounded in a shooting attack early Friday at the packed theater during a showing of the Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises." Police have identified the suspected shooter as James Holmes, 24. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) | Alex Brandon

DENVER (AP) — A dad who took his teenage children to the new Batman movie and was killed when a gunman opened fire on the theater was mourned Wednesday, the first memorial service for a victim of the shootings.

Fifty-one-year-old Gordon Cowden was the oldest of the 12 people killed in the massacre at the “Dark Knight Rises.” His teenage children escaped unharmed.

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