Twelve people were killed in the massacre during the Aurora shooting during the midnight showing of Dark Night rises and one of those twelve was Alex Sullivan who happened to be there on his 27th birthday.
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The Daily News reports:
“The Sullivan family lost a cherished member of their family today,” the family said in a statement. “Alex was smart, funny, and above all loved dearly by his friends and family.”
Compounding the tragedy, Sullivan died just two days before his one-year anniversary to his wife, Cassandra, Rochester, N.Y.’s WHAM-TV reported.
Earlier in the day, Sullivan’s family became a symbol of the tragedy enveloping Aurora, captured in an anguished embrace by an AP photographer as they waited for news outside Gateway High School, searching for news of their missing son.
By 11 p.m. the Sullivan family got the tragic news that their son and husband had been one of the fatalities that remained inside the theater while police completed their investigation of the scene.
Alex became unreachable, turning off his phone as the movie started but just an hour before the movie he tweeted:
“Oh man one hour till the movie and its going to be the best BIRTHDAY ever,”
Sullivan’s uncle, Joe Loewenguth says:
“He was a very, very good young man. He always had a smile, always made you laugh. He had a little bit of comic in him. Witty, smart. He was loving, had a big heart.”
Our prayers and condolences are with the Sullivan family.
SOURCE: AP & Daily News
