Obama Orders Half-Staff Flags in Wake of 'Senseless' Colorado Shooting
The president issued a proclamation Friday ordering that flags in the U.S. be lowered to half-staff through part of next week.
U.S. President Barack Obama is asking citizens and government centers to lower their flags to half-staff in honor of the victims of Friday's shooting in a Colorado movie theater. The move intends to pay respect to the 71 wounded and dozen killed at midnight Friday, when police say 24-year-old James Holmes entered a theater in suburban Denver as it was debuting "The Dark Knight Rises" and opened fire. Sign up to receive a free, daily e-newsletter from Plainfield Patch. "At first he was just a silhouette, taken by some in the audience for a stunt that was part of one of the summer's most highly anticipated films," according to a Huffington Post story. "But then, authorities said, he threw gas canisters that filled the packed ... theater with…
