{"id":15873,"date":"2012-07-26T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15873"},"modified":"2012-07-26T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:05:32","slug":"teen-saves-mother-2-daughters-in-colorado-theater-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15873","title":{"rendered":"Teen Saves Mother, 2 Daughters In Colorado Theater Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AURORA, CO &#8212; <strong>Jarell Brooks<\/strong> is acknowledged for saving a mother and her two young daughters during the Aurora mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>A Colorado teen who survived Friday\u2019s mass shooting of the midnight screening of <em>The Dark Knight Rises<\/em>, saved a mother and her 2 daughters although he was injured himself. <strong>Jarell Brooks,<\/strong> 19, was prepared to flee the cinema when <strong>James Holmes<\/strong> allegedly opened fire on the unsuspecting audience. <strong>Brooks<\/strong> realized<strong> Patricia Legarreta<\/strong> was struggling to save her children and immediately ran to their rescue. \u201cI made sure they got in the aisle and pushed behind her to make sure she got out of there, said <strong>Brooks<\/strong>. He and<strong> Legarreta<\/strong> were shot and are recovering at home.<\/p>\n<p>A Colorado teen turned into a real-life superhero Friday night after a gunman opened fire in a packed movie theater.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jarell Brooks<\/strong>, 19, was prepared to flee the Aurora theater when a shooter started attacking cinemagoers excited to see the midnight showing of <em>\u201cThe Dark Knight Rises.\u201d<\/em> When <strong>Brooks<\/strong> saw <strong>Patricia Legarreta<\/strong> struggling to save her babies, he immediately stopped in his tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe yelled, \u2018My kids!,\u2019\u201d<strong> Brooks<\/strong> told the news outlet of the horrifying moment he realized<strong> Legarreta<\/strong> and her two young daughters were in danger. \u201cI made sure they got in the aisle and pushed behind her to make sure she got out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AURORA, CO &#8212; Jarell Brooks is acknowledged for saving a mother and her two young daughters during the Aurora mass shootings. A Colorado teen who survived Friday\u2019s mass shooting of the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, saved a mother and her 2 daughters although he was injured himself. Jarell Brooks, 19, was prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}