Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect who killed 12 people during a showing of the latest Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” have indicated their client might plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
It was just hours after a Colorado movie theater shooting, and James Holmes was not acting like a man accused of methodically planning the attack that killed 12 people.
James Holmes spent a year in a small neuroscience doctoral program, surrounded by scientists and roughly three dozen classmates delving into the inner workings of the brain.
A girl aged five or six tries out a rifle in an Aurora gunshop, oblivious to Friday’s massacre in this Colorado town. “Honey, it’s too big for you, we will find you another,” says her mother.
AURORA, Colorado—US President Barack Obama said he hugged and “shed tears” Sunday with survivors of the Colorado shooting and relatives of the dead, saying the entire country is “thinking about them.” “You see young people who have come in and just two days ago or 36 hours ago or even 24 hours ago, it wasn’t [...]
The Colorado shooting suspect planned the rampage that killed 12 people and injured dozens of others at a suburban movie theater with “calculation and deliberation,” police said Saturday, receiving months of deliveries in advance that authorities believe armed him for battle and were used to rig his apartment with deadly explosives.
The gunman arrested over the Colorado movie theater massacre bought more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the Internet in the last two months, the local police chief said Friday.
A major US cinema chain announced Friday a ban on face masks and fake weapons in its theaters, following the massacre at a Batman film screening in Colorado that left at least 12 people dead.
