Aurora seeks to release report on theater shooting emergency response

From The Denver Post:  The city of Aurora has filed a petition with the court to allow it to release a comprehensive review of how the city responded to the Aurora theater shooting.

The reportwas turned over to the city in April, but officials felt it could not be released to the public because of an ongoing gag order in the case, said Mike Hyman, Aurora’s interim city attorney.

“Our concern is with the criminal case,” Hyman said. “We want to make sure that this doesn’t go against the gag order, that there’s nothing the release will do to impair the ability of the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office to prosecute James Holmes.”

Aurora commissioned the $250,000 outside review from the company TriData.

The report, among other things, was to examine why it took emergency medical workers 24 minutes to arrive on the scene of the Century Aurora 16 movie theater, while police got there within three minutes of the first reports of gunfire and transported the wounded to area hospitals.

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