Patricia Legarreta Agrees to Marry Jamie Rohrs. Rohrs did not try to protect his girlfriend or their children, but actually ran for the exit and got into his car and drove away. A stranger, Jarell Brooks, escorted her and her children to the exit, unharmed, but himself got shot in the leg.

chavelah · 2012-07-26T23:21:30+00:00

Forget the girlfriend and the other kid (not that they're worthless, but they are not necessary to make the point). This guy left his infant son in that theater. People can panic and run, but he got into his car and DROVE AWAY. Nobody should marry him. He's not dad material.

thrway_1000 · 2012-07-26T20:54:22+00:00

I don't agree with shaming the guy, but I do think cowardice is a bad thing. Maybe the appropriate question is why we accept cowardice from anyone male or female.

curious67 · 2012-07-26T20:19:45+00:00

He should have been her human shield to protect her from the bullets!!?

Jamie Rohrs, of Aurora, Colorado, took his girlfriend Patricia Legarreta to a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” as you might expect many boyfriends did as a date. In fact, in a mildly kind gesture, he also brought both Legarreta and her two young children.

But then the shooting which has rocked the nation happened, and Mr. Rohrs demonstrated that, far from being kind, he actually might be exactly the wrong person for someone to date. According to reports, Mr. Rohrs not only didn’t try to protect his girlfriend or her children, but he actually rushed for the exit and got into his car, leaving them behind.

Fortunately for Leggareta, there was someone in the theater who was willing to try and help them – a 19-year-old college student named Jarell Brooks who escorted her and her children to the exit, where miraculously enough, the Leggaretas escaped the shooting virtually unharmed. Brooks, however, took a bullet to the leg.

Which brings us back to Mr. Rohrs. Despite his earlier show of cowardice, or perhaps because of it, Rohrs found his girlfriend and her kids at the hospital, and once there, he made the rather counterintuitive move of proposing marriage to Leggareta. And rather than slapping him for leaving her there, she apparently said, “Yes.”

curious67 · 2012-07-26T20:26:14+00:00

she should have covered his back when he ran. What a cowardice on her part.

eberkimer · 2012-07-27T18:16:27+00:00

OP title is misleading. They aren't his children. They are hers. He doesn't owe them anything. She does.

Edit: further down the article is says they are his. So are they or aren't they? That makes a lot of difference.

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