Among those injured when a gunman opened fire at an Aurora theatre early Friday morning was Gateway High senior Zack Golditch, a 2013 Colorado State football recruit.
Golditch was in the theatre adjacent to where the shooting occurred and was hit by a bullet that went through the wall, according to reports. Golditch was injured in the neck but was released from the hospital this morning.
“I was kind of like in the first row where the stairs start to go up,” Golditch told the Loveland Reporter-Herald.
The a 6-foot-5, 260-pound lineman didn’t originally think he’d been shot. “The movie was going and everything was fine, then all the sudden, it was like some popping went off in my left hand corner, and there was some smoke, so I thought it was firecrackers.
“Some guy had a hole in his arm, like it blew up right next to his arm. Everyone was like, some idiots are throwing firecrackers inside the movie. Then all I know is I kind of look around, I hear a soft boom beside my ear, and my ears are ringing.
“I kind of leaned over to my friend, and I had blood dripping into my hand. I was like, ‘Man, I need to get out of here, because I don’t want something to happen again.’ “
With Golditch at the movie was CSU sophomore wide receiver David Anderson, a 2010 Gateway graduate; he was not injured. Anderson posted a video on his Facebook page about being at the theatre.
“Thank you god for (saving) me tonight! thank you! thank you! thank you!” Golditch tweeted this morning.
Later, he tweeted, “Thank you God for the gift of life! i promise it will not go to waste.”
CSU basketball recruit Marcus Holt, a 2011 Rangeview Highgrad who attends Paris Junior College in Texas, was also at the theatre but was not injured, according to his Twitter account.
Early this morning, Holt tweeted: “I really had my guardian angel looking over me tonight.”
