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Denison Native Escapes Colorado Gunfire

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SHERMAN, TX -- Denison resident Mary Omundson says she got startling phone call from her son in Colorado at about 1:50 a.m.

"He said that he had gone to see the Batman premiere, the movie, and that there had been a shooting," Omundson says. "He was sitting by the exit door. The man had kicked the door open and come in and thrown some tear gas up in the air and then just started shooting."

Omundson says her son Bear, 20, lives in Colorado and serves in the military. He and his friends dove to the ground, but Bear soon realized that one of them had been hit.

"He said he pulled his friend down to the ground and then when they saw the man was coming back, he laid on top of him just to give him some kind of shield," Omundson says. "When the man walked off they tried to get the injured man out, but they couldn't barely move him."

Bear told his mother about the moments while waiting on the ground and seeing the shooter came back again. "The guy came back down the aisle, he started shooting some more and then went into the back and Bear understood that he had been arrested at that point, the police had been there and then they all slowly -- the ones that weren't screaming and yelling -- slowly evacuated," Omundson says her son told her.

Omundson says that after hearing that her son's friend sitting in the seat right next to him died, she is very grateful that her son is safe. "He must have had an angel on his shoulder that's all I can say," she says.

Omundson says after making it out of the building safely and calling her, Bear was taken to a high school with about 50 other moviegoers for questioning.