The Colorado cinema where 12 people were killed and dozens injured in a shooting rampage nearly six months ago reopened with a remembrance ceremony and a private screening of the fantasy film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for survivors.

He is someone with no apparent criminal past – but is now suspected of carrying out the worst shooting in the US for years.

Fourteen people have died in Colorado after a gun attack at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie, police said today.