when did the aurora colorado shooting take place?
2012 Aurora shooting
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 The Northern Illinois University shooting was a school shooting that took place on February 14 , 2008 . Steven Kazmierczak shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb , Illinois , killing five people and injuring another twenty @-@ one , before committing suicide . 

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 In an attempt to create a sense of realism for the storyline , principal CNN news outlet commentators were scripted into Contact . More than 25 news reporters from CNN had roles in the film and the CNN programs Larry King Live and Crossfire were also included . Ann Druyan makes a cameo appearance as herself , debating with Rob Lowe 's character , Richard Rank , on Crossfire . In January 1997 , a second unit was sent to Puerto Rico for one week at the Arecibo Observatory . 

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 A total of 408 potential jurors were questioned during the voir dire , which concluded on February 14 . All of the 15 jurors — ten women and five men — were white , and most were under thirty years old . Five jurors had personal ties to State Troopers ( one girlfriend , two nephews , and two friends ) . A sixteenth female juror was removed before the trial formally opened when it was determined that Sheriff Joseph DeMarino of Middlesex County , while a private detective several years earlier , had worked for a lawyer who represented the juror 's husband . Judge Appleby repeatedly denied Kunstler 's requests for DeMarino to be removed from his responsibilities for the duration of the trial " because he did not divulge his association with the juror . " 

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 The Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was an incident of a hostage taking and shooting that occurred at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey , Colorado , on September 27 , 2006 . The gunman , 53 @-@ year @-@ old Duane Roger Morrison , took six female students hostage and sexually assaulted them , later releasing four . When police broke open the classroom 's door with explosives , Morrison opened fire with a semiautomatic pistol before shooting hostage Emily Keyes in the head . The other remaining hostages escaped unharmed , and paramedics confirmed that Morrison had committed suicide shortly before police were able to enter the classroom . Keyes was pronounced dead at 4 : 32 p.m. MDT ( 23 : 32 UTC ) at Saint Anthony 's Hospital in Denver , Colorado after undergoing emergency surgery . 

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 From 1953 to 1989 , the Rocky Flats Plant , a DOE nuclear weapon facility formerly located about 15 miles from Denver , produced fissile plutonium " pits " for nuclear warheads . A major fire at the facility in 1957 , as well as leakage from nuclear waste stored at the site between 1958 and 1968 , resulted in the contamination of some parts of Denver , to varying degrees , with plutonium @-@ 239 , a harmful radioactive substance with a half @-@ life of 24 @,@ 200 years . A study by the Jefferson County health director , Dr. Carl Johnson , in 1981 linked the contamination to an increase in birth defects and cancer incidence in central Denver and nearer Rocky Flats . Later studies confirmed many of his findings . Plutonium contamination was still present outside the former plant site as of August 2010 , and presents risks to building the envisioned Jefferson Parkway , which would complete Denver 's automotive beltway . 
