MEDIA RELEASE

HONOLULU – Governor Neil Abercrombie today ordered that all national flags at all State offices and agencies as well as the Hawai’i National Guard are to be flown at half-staff as directed by President Barack Obama.

Mr. Obama made the Presidential Proclamation “as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colorado.” The United States flag shall be lowered to half-staff beginning today until sunset, July 25, 2012.

Law enforcement authorities in Aurora stated a 24-year-old man entered a movie theater during a midnight showing of a film, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire. Twelve people were killed; another 59 adults and children were wounded.

To view the Presidential Proclamation, please visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/20/presidential-proclamation-honoring-victims-tragedy-aurora-colorado