Will be interesting to see more about this--I'm seeing mixed reports. Here's one that says it was tear gas...
http://www.ohio.com/news/local-news...gs-says-navy-training-saved-her-life-1.323104
"Akron native Carli Richards and Chris Townson were two of the first shooting victims to escape out of the theater after the shooting started in Aurora, Colorado last week. Richards was hit by 22 shotgun pellets and Townson had one pellet graze his chest.
Richards has chronicled her ordeal on her blog,
www.carlirotten.net, and also on Facebook. Contacted by email, Richards said she is still recovering from her wounds.
The instinct [to] keep running overpowered any other thought in my mind, she wrote.
As she fled the theater, Richards said, she realized many around her were not moving.
If my partner and I had not taken responsibility for ourselves at some point in our lives and joined the U.S. Navy, we would not have immediately recognized the smell of tear gas, she wrote."