Holmes' psychiatrist worried he was shifting into a schizophrenic state

June 15, 2015

Toews suffered gunshot wounds to his head as a result of the shooting. While he was on the stand, the court displayed the picture of his head wound from the hospital that night. Dr. Lynne Fenton took the witness stand today, visibly shaking as she recounted her seven psychiatric appointments...

Another One Bites the Dust: Tale of Juror #901

June 15, 2015

We started with 24 jurors. We now have 20. Of 19 original women, four have been excused. (Why all women?) There are still five men. It鈥檚 strange to look at the three rows of seats and see empty grey chairs. This latest juror, number 901, is a graduate student in...

Aurora theater shooter bought weapons hours after failing big exam

June 15, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 He said only fools would blame his murders on bad grades. 鈥淢ost fools will misinterpret correlation for causation, namely relationship and work failure as causes,鈥 Aurora theater shooter James Holmes wrote in his infamous spiral notebok. But Monday鈥檚 court proceedings indicated otherwise. The prosecution screened surveillance footage...

Read: Shooter鈥檚 Gmail chats with ex-girlfriend go from awkward to evil

June 15, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 At first, the Gmail chats between Aurora theater shooter James Holmes and his then-girlfriend Gargi Datta were innocuous enough. Starting in October 2012, the pair flirtatiously chatted about gaming, school and lab rotations. Their typed conversations, full of pop culture references, are peppered with emoticons and sexual...

Juror Problems: Judge Samour bounces three women from jury

June 12, 2015

We鈥檙e down to 21 out of an original 24 jurors. In a move that delayed the trial a day, three of the 19 women on the panel were kicked off the Batman movie theater shooting trial last week. I think it鈥檚 a good thing. One of them, a mother of...

Packed courtroom silenced by graphic crime scene video

June 11, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 The courtroom looked shellshocked. Victims and their families held hands, wiped their eyes, stared at their feet. Members of the press, normally chatty, stood in quiet stillness. Sandy Phillips and Caren Teves, both of whom lost children in the shooting, sat with their heads close, Phillips softly...

Aurora theater shooter鈥檚 parents offer mute support for his life

June 11, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 Day after day since the Aurora theater trial started in April, Arlene and Bob Holmes take their seats in Courtroom 201 of the Arapahoe County Justice Center. Jaws set and heads bowed, they sit still and quietly, as if trying not to draw attention to themselves. Their...

Woman most intimate with theater shooter before massacre testifies

June 10, 2015

The Aurora theater shooter spoke to his ex-girlfriend, Gargi Datta, about homicidal thoughts in the months leading up to the July 2012 massacre that left 12 dead and 70 injured. Datta didn鈥檛 think he was being serious. 鈥淲hat do you want to do?鈥 Datta asked the shooter, James Holmes, by...

Three jurors excused after exposure to trial news; Holmes鈥 younger sister expected to testify

June 9, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 Judge Carlos Samour Jr. dismissed three jurors Tuesday in the Aurora theater shooting case after learning that all three had been exposed to news coverage of the trial of James Holmes, who killed 12 people and injured 70 more during a midnight movie showing in July 2012...

Chris Holmes comes to court for the first time since theater shooting trial began

June 8, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 A mother, a father and a daughter share a laugh Monday as they speak to each other in hushed whispers. A father shares his orange Tic Tacs and the rest of his bag of candy. It鈥檚 a picture of a happy family鈥攐r what could have been鈥攈ad they...

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