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Colorado, Colorado State players linked by theater shooting

Sep 18, 2015 at 3:36a ET

Sep 18, 2015 at 3:36a ET

DENVER (AP) Zack Golditch and Jordan Murphy have never met. Yet, they share a strong connection through football and a tragedy inside a movie complex.

Golditch, a sophomore starting left tackle for Colorado State, was shot in the neck as he sat in an adjacent theater on July 20, 2012, when James Holmes murdered 12 people and tried to kill 70 more during a midnight showing of the Batman movie ''The Dark Knight Rises,'' in a suburb of Denver.