Matthew Robert McQuinn, 27, died shielding his longtime girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, who was shot in the knee and hospitalized, according to a family spokesman. Mr. McQuinn, a 2004 graduate of Vandalia-Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio, is originally from Springfield, Ohio.

 

Mr. McQuinn and Ms. Yowler, who had been dating since March 2009, moved to Colorado last year and took jobs at Target. Ms. Yowler's brother, Nick Yowler, lives in Colorado. He had accompanied the couple to the movie screening and escaped uninjured after also shielding his sister and pulling her from the theater.