In fleeing theater, survivor left family behind

[@leanraccoon]

Running out is one thing. Not wanting to go back in because you are sure you would die is one thing. but to DRIVE AWAY is the weakest thing that I have ever heard.

[@myrnalinton3195]

I don't know how he sleeps at night. Few people know how they would react in life-threatening circumstances. However, this man knows. Every time he looks in the mirror he sees the face of a man who put his own safety before that of his wife and children. Thank goodness his family lived.

[@Dmgernant1]

Wow very true

[@mstellla5407]

As a mother I would NEVER leave my kids just to save myself. He is a coward

[@crosshairs3]

His wife’s testimony is on here. Truly incredible she stayed with him and can respect him as a husband and father of her children after this

[@ENIGMAPOP]

He left them behind... like drove away n errything. 😐

[@YurinanAcquiline]

Such a stark contrast to that other story I saw where a woman jumped out a burning building with her child while using her body to protect the child from injuries....

[@johnwinter2252]

Its crazy a recent shooting victim is who saved his faimly. The man was shot prior to this event and he still managed to help. What a shame. I would rather die then leave my family to die and Im far from a "hero".

[@peacemakerlogic9760]

When his wife called him, her only words should have been "I want a divorce!" I couldn't be with a man who left his family to die! I give him credit for telling the truth because most of us would keep this to the grave! 😒 Everything about this is losing.

[@mlw7695]

He asked her to marry him at the hospital where she was taken!

[@tylercolby1426]

@@mlw7695 And you only know he asked her to marry him because he knew he fucked up royally. Bet she only said yes because she was doped up and/or still in shock.

[@jongon7492]

how could he ditch his family. that's just sad

[@boo6799]

All I hear is 'Me, Me, Me!' You'd rather help out some strangers and give them a lift while your wife and kids might be getting shot to smithereens. Just shows how much he doesn't care about his wife and kids. The amount of people that stay with their friends and loved ones when they are injured because they don't want to leave them. I know it's the fight or flight scenario but I would die trying to save my family and loved ones, because at least I tried.

[@TradBarbie]

*Why* would you even *want* to live if your CHILDREN DIE *in front of you??*

[@forevernow9459]

Ide rather die like a man, than live like a coward. A man dies but once, but a coward dies a thousand times.

[@Kitagawa16]

What was that movie of that zombie apocalypse? Like the father just ran and left his wife and child in the house raided with zombies...? I have to say this is equivalent to that. My heart does not go out to this guy at all.

[@phanatic215]

Kitagawa16 28 Weeks Later

[@msrainbowbrite]

infant child? this is what pisses me off the most. what was an infant doing in a cinema at midnight?

[@giveitarub7215]

MsRainbow Brite do they have scheduled bed times?

[@msrainbowbrite]

Auxi Vigil usually the bedtimes don't involve noisy cinemas

[@giveitarub7215]

MsRainbow Brite what if they napped lots during the day for the movie?

[@msrainbowbrite]

Auxi Vigil a 6 month old child doesn't give two shits about batman

[@giveitarub7215]

MsRainbow Brite So who said it was for the child like are you that ignorant? Maybe the two parents wanted to see it but they couldnt just leave the baby at home sleeping so they nap them during the day so that they can bring them to the theatre later on

[@internetpolice1166]

Objection your honor, movie spoilers. Sustained.

[@bazinbali]

how do you not pick up your infant at least when you're running out

[@teatimedrinker1]

He actually did have him in his arms when he was running out. Although he placed him down in a safe spot when he was looking to make sure they could get out without being shot he found a little area and that's where he put him. When he went back to get him he was gone.

[@thatbooknerdoverthere7899]

@@teatimedrinker1 He didn't go back, he drove away

[@teatimedrinker1]

@@thatbooknerdoverthere7899 He said in his testimony that he laid him down in a safe spot initially And when he went to go back he was gone. That’s when the wife found him I guess. It also wasn’t his idea in the first place to be in the rose ahead of his wife and little girl. That ended up happening when people were trying to get out climbing over the chairs etc. and that was safest place he thought at the time. Before I continue, in watching this you would say “well that’s your child, that’s your family, why wouldn’t you go in there?” However I do not believe it’s black-and-white. People handle fear and the unknown a lot differently. And I’m sure he himself, like you or I, have said “ if this ever happened I would make sure this that and the other thing…”but I imagine in that kind of a situation , your sense might go out the door. I don’t give a shit if you had any kind of military background or not , or what you say you would have done sitting behind your keyboard. Truth is, you can’t have any idea what you would ACTUALLY end up doing had you been in the same position.

[@lonestar3879]

Hope his wife divorced his SORRY ASS !! " I knew i would be killed if i went back in " What about your wife and child !! Sad that the protector of the family " DAD " decided his own life was more importent than his family .

[@Quailers]

it is cause he can get a new wife make more babies he can't get him self back

[@vogelvogeltje]

@@Quailers wife and babies are disposable, eh?

[@Quailers]

@vogelvogeltje in this situation yes, unfortunately

[@Quailers]

@@vogelvogeltje.

[@bailey7792]

Nope. Her weird ass agreed to marry him 2 days after getting shot.. and after he left her and their 2 kids to die. He proposed in the hospital and she actually said yes. 🙄

[@fallout7713]

Wow this guy is a disgusting human being. I'd rather die protecting my family than to live my life as a coward.

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

Does anyone else think it's weird he can recall what was going on in the movie before it happened?

[@infamoushiphop7943]

Jim Norton has the best rant about this coward

[@vinnymac7565]

The part he left out was him throwing his baby at the gunmen to cause just enough distraction to make an escape.

[@sub4u238]

Hahahahaha

[@obscure6124]

💀

[@Misfit636]

Yes I heard from my wife saying she wants a divorce

[@BikesNight]

James holmes even probably felt bad when he saw this coward throw his baby like a hot potato and ditch his wife and daughter to be slaughtered so he let them live. James holmes mistake...should have chased down Jamie and have a talk with him. and RECORD it... it would sound like this... James Holmes:"like WTF man...? you left your wife and kids for me to kill them?" Jamie:" WE ARENT EVEN ENGAGED!" ... he could have at least saved Patricia's life

[@greglr19751]

This guy should be ashamed, but the people who posted this to publicly shame him, instead of focus on the killer, are even worse.

[@markwilliams7054]

you tool - you're not supposed to give the shooter the fame and notoriety he wants

[@IAmAlmightyGod]

no they are not. he's trash

[@bigant2574]

Disgust me so much

[@larryok8156]

Coward of the decade!

[@missysample4486]

He left his family bad enough. Had an instinct to go back in and he could’ve be he was afraid HE was going to get killed. He has to live with himself but I doubt he feels bad because this is the same man that left his family the first place. How pathetic!!!

[@TradBarbie]

*Reason to marry a Veteran* number 5,584.

[@IAmAlmightyGod]

or a black guy that a risk his life to protect a stranger and her kids.

[@Sevenhundredseventyseven777]

They looked at him like he's crazy for a good reason.

[@hfree15]

This can’t be real. (I know it is and I’m horrified)

[@theotterislands8642]

Guys, the baby wouldn't have survived the jump

[@paytonwarren2588]

I would have taken my chances and tried to take out the gunman

[@dblock2626]

Lol can just imagine how dope it would of been if someone with a small pistol picked him off as he walked in the door, what's crazy is they got him alive

[@teatimedrinker1]

How the hell would someone be able to get into the theater with a f****** gun to take out the shooter? You people are dumb as hell

[@Sevenhundredseventyseven777]

He's the father from Ruben Östlunds "Turist"/"Force Majeure". ☠️

[@br-nh6eb]

no one fells bad but me.... Well does this mean Im a horrible person?

[@br-nh6eb]

feels**"

[@Rayji4]

Spur of the moment. No matter what anyone says i would have ran too.

[@zefix697]

In my opinion that is disgusting. I can't believe someone would be able to do that. A man is supposed to protect is family at all costs. That's what your signing up for when you decide to create a family and become a father and husband.

[@BikesNight]

+Define Ram run jump push pull, i dont think anyone was enjoying the movie that much to stay. its the fact that he did not run with his family, pull his family not anything... hypothetically I would just hope you are capable and around people who follow your every man for himself philosophy. otherwise its a downright tragedy for people who will risk their life to pick you up

[@voteZDLR]

+Define Ram So you're telling me, as a FATHER, with a newborn child you foolishly took to a midnight showing of a superhero movie, if somebody came in guns blazing you wouldn't at the very least have shielded your child? You wouldn't have covered them with your own body? Like, I get what you're saying, if it was just a little girlfriend of yours with HER kid, maybe. But you're not a man at all if you wouldn't have done what you could to save your kid. You're just a shrimpy little weasle who runs, betraying his family and himself in one fell swoop. How ironic is it that this guy survived while his child and the mother of his child did not. And he did nothing. He will live branded as a coward for the rest of his life. It's impossible to say what one would do in these types of events, but I do think one's instincts reflect on the man, even in this case. Defying death simply to save your own life. Here's hoping you never have kids, and hopefully never take those kids to the movies with you for your midnight showing of a fucking batman movie.

[@coolkat4881]

+voteZDLR I have to agree with you and most of these other comments. Its disgraceful. As a mum I would NEVER leave my children in danger, EVER. I would have died in there protecting them, no hesitation...

[@voteZDLR]

CoolKat48 I can say with 100% certainty as a man that if I ever had kids I would've probably ran with the kid and jumped the same way he did, even if it meant breaking my legs or arms upon landing, I'd just try to hold on to the child. At least then there would be a CHANCE to save the child from the psychopath in the theater. But I just can't even imagine a father in this world who would give up on a newborn baby. That shit makes me so mad.

[@25simimi6]

I would do the same tbh because I'm a coward. jk. But I am a coward. the only person I could save would PROBABLY be my mom but I don't think I can carry her aunt. she's 72 years old now and she has this back problem... Even if she died of a heart attack I would cry. But if my mom died, so would I.

[@sauceboss4093]

pffft of course he left them behind you can get another wife and make more babies but you can't get another you

[@dblock2626]

Lol tis very true

[@AwakeNow242]

I am so impressed, I am screenshotting this comment

[@sauceboss4093]

+AwakeNow242 Listen just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right

[@mrgrork]

If there's one thing I can't stand in comments, it's seeing people like him act as if their opinion is the greatest thing since electricity.

[@AwakeNow242]

Scott Saucerman lol, not offended. Don't flatter yourself

[@billthecat666]

O

[@mikem3875]

I would've ran too, to the nearest bar for a cold one. In a situation like that it's every man, woman and child for themselves, fuck it. Survival of the fitness baby.