Jennifer Seeger, who was inside the Aurora, Colo., movie theater where a gunman opened fire early Friday, describes the scene of the shooting as "mass chaos."
By Andrew Mach, NBC News
A survivor of the Colorado theater shooting massacre said she initially thought the man dressed in black who entered through an exit door was part of the premier of the new Batman movie.
"I thought it was a joke or part of the show," Jennifer Seeger?told TODAY. "He came in and threw in the gas can, and then I knew it was real."?
The alleged gunman, James Holmes, shot and killed?12 people and wounded dozens more at the movie theater in Aurora, Colo.?
Seeger, 22, described the "mass chaos" that unfolded as the suspect opened fire.?
"He shot the ceiling, and right after, he pointed the gun right at me," she said. "At that point, I dove into the aisle, and I got lucky because he didn't shoot me."
"But then he started to shoot people behind me, and the bullets started falling on my head," she said. "It was like burning my head because it was so fresh. I could smell gun powder."?
At that point, Seeger said, she tried to think of an escape route.?
"I was crawling, and I told my friend, I said, 'Once he gets up there, he goes up to the stairs, we?ve got to get out of here, we?ve got to get out of here,'" she said. "So we start crawling, we start crawling and everybody?s going for the door, and then everybody starts coming back in, they?re saying, ?No, he?s going to shoot the people trying to get out of the door, and he did.'"
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Trapped inside the theater, Seeger said, the gas began to take effect.?
"I was coughing, my eyes were tearing up," she said. "I was just scared and my adrenaline pumped in and I tried to get out.?
"They said, 'This guy's coming back, he's going to shoot you, he's going to shoot you,'" she said. "So I just ran as an instinct."
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