AJ had just graduated from Gateway High School where he played baseball, said a family friend. His dream was to become an art teacher and open his own studio, his family said. Jonathan Blunk. He died in the shooting after he pushed his girlfriend Jansen Young under the theater seat, saving her life.
Friends said he spent nearly every day of the week playing sports -- softball on Mondays, bowling on Tuesdays, reported the Denver Post. Childress loved comics and superhero movies. He had recently bought a black Scion -- a car he nicknamed the "Batmobile. Gordon Cowden loved life and his family. He went to the midnight movie premiere with his two teenage children. The father of four lived in Aurora, but was described as a "true Texas gentleman" in a family statement.
He loved the outdoors and owned his own business. Cowden's teenage children escaped the shooting unharmed. John Larimer was a Navy sailor based at Buckley Air Force Base, where he was a cryptologic technician -- a job that the Navy says on its website should be filled by someone with "exceptionally good character, above-average writing and speaking skills, a good memory, curiosity and resourcefulness. Micayla Medek , 23, was saving money for a trip to India. She was working at Subway and attended Aurora Community College.
At her funeral service, mourners wore pink ribbons, some with Hello Kitty faces on them, in honor of her fondness for the color and the character. Matt McQuinn died trying to protect his girlfriend. As the gunman opened fire, McQuinn dove on top of Samantha Yowler. Yowler was injured in the leg, a family spokesman said. McQuinn, a year-old Ohio native, had moved to Colorado just a few months earlier. Jessica Ghawi was a journalist and blogger who also went by the name Jessica Redfield.
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