Aurora, C.O. (WBTV) -- A Charlotte man visiting Aurora, Colorado was headed to the same theater where a suspected gunman opened fire during a midnight show of the new "Batman" movie.
Chase Dempsey told WBTV by phone Friday evening he is in the Denver suburb for his cousin's wedding.
He vividly remembers making plans to go to the Century Theater for a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
"The options were either go laser bowling or go see the Batman movie and we were going to go to that very theater," Dempsey recalled. "And we ended up just not doing that."
He said he awoke to the horrific news and immediately realized how fortunate he was to be hundreds of miles from home and yet so close to tragedy.
"We were lucky," he said. "Everybody is of course praying and thinking God and believing that you know God was with us that we didn't go."
Dempsey told WBTV the videographer for the wedding, however, wasn't as lucky.
"The videographer for the wedding [Friday], he was actually shot twice," he said. "Both of them were basically graze wounds. Needless to say, we had to get a different videographer."
Dempsey, who also has friends in the area, described the mood in Aurora Friday.
"The mood out there is pretty somber today," he said. "Everybody is pretty much glued to their TVs."
Dempsey also said the wedding went as planned Friday and he will be back in Charlotte next week.
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