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Only tangentially related, but I'd like to know:

The Wikipedia article on the incident says "The first phone calls to emergency services via 9-1-1 were made at 12:39 a.m. The police arrived within 90 seconds and apprehended the suspect."

I'm wondering, can this be true? Are they really that fast? If so, impressive.

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According to the police chief, they had a lot of extra officers out on the streets as part of a summer initiative. Aurora is a typical strip mall suburb so it is feasible that a unit even a mile or two away could get there in 90 seconds, especially at that time of night with no traffic.

There were policemen on patrol near the theater at the time. Otherwise that response time would have been more like 5-10 min (at the least).

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