Shooting at TDKR Midnight Premiere in Aurora, CO. Multiple dead.

[Priest31kc]

At least 10 moviegoers were killed and 39 injured at a cinema in the Colorado city of Aurora in the Denver suburbs. They were attending a midnight showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.

The theater was packed with a lot of people, many of them young fans, at the time the shooting started, 9news reports. The violence erupted some 15 minutes after the movie started, witnesses said.

Some say that when they first heard the shooting, they thought it was some new type of special effect.

Local media reports that two gunmen were involved in the rampage. An explosive device was set off during the shooting, injuring several people.

Witnesses said the gunmen were probably wearing body armor and gas masks and used some kind of a tear gas bomb in the attack.

Some reports say police have apprehended one of the assailants while the second one is still at large.

Police have cleared people from the scene over fears that another explosive device might be on the premises.

Aurora medical services were alerted to attend to the large number of injured

http://www.rt.com/news/shooting-dark...er-aurora-654/

WOW

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

For anyone who's into this kind of thing. An interesting take on the conflicting reports from witnesses and the police.

I see you have embded a video clip. But it's not showing up. Does anyone else have this problem.

[ThaVirus]

Hmmm, not sure. It's titled "The James Holmes Conspiracy" on Youtube for you conspiracy theorists out there. It's a full documentary, FYI.

[Munson]

Its working just fine for me.

I was bored, so I actually watched the whole thing. Very interesting to say the least. Not saying I believe it, but worth a watch.

In short, the theory is that James Holmes was set up to take the fall, since he was the victim of government mind control. Somebody else pulled the trigger at the movie theater, while Holmes pinned as the lone gunman. The movie talks about military and CIA mind control programs like MK Ultra. They say that he has symptoms that are consistent of somebody who was under the governments control.

For me, its gets interesting at 1:17:45. It talks about how James Holmes has connections to DARPA. And even more interesting at 1:20:00, it talks about how his father Robert also has connections to DARPA, and his role in the banking world. He was scheduled within weeks of the massacre to testify before the Senate about the LIBOR bank scandal. He was the creator of one of the most sophisticated computer banking algorithms ever developed, predictive banking models, and fraud detecting models. He's the senior lead scientist for FICO(credit score).

In a nutshell, they try to make the connection that because Robert Holmes writes the program that exposes banker fraud, his son is framed for murder.

[Tribal Warfare]

Judge accepts insanity plea in Colorado theater massacre trial
Published June 04, 2013 | Associated Press
CENTENNIAL, Colo. – A judge on Tuesday accepted James' Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, setting the stage for a lengthy mental evaluation of the Colorado theater shooting suspect.

Holmes is accused of opening fire in a packed Denver-area movie theater last summer, killing 12 people and injuring 70. He is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

The mental evaluation could take months.

Holmes' lawyers repeatedly have said he is mentally ill, but they delayed the insanity plea while arguing state laws were unconstitutional. They said the laws could hobble the defense if Holmes' case should ever reach the phase where the jury decides if he should be executed.

The judge rejected that argument last week.

Hundreds of people were watching a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" at the Aurora theater when the shooting occurred July 20.

The dead included a Navy veteran who threw himself in front of his friends to shield them, an aspiring sports journalist who had survived a mall shooting just two months earlier, and a 6-year-old girl.

Prosecutors say Holmes spent months buying weapons, ammunition and materials for explosives and scouted the theater in advance. He donned police-style body armor, tossed a gas canister into the seats and opened fire, they say.

The insanity plea is widely seen as Holmes' best chance of avoiding execution, and possibly his only chance, given the weight of the evidence against him.

But his lawyers delayed it for weeks, saying Colorado's laws on the insanity plea and the death penalty could work in combination to violate his constitutional rights.

The laws state that if Holmes does not cooperate with doctors conducting a mandatory mental evaluation, he would lose the right to call expert witnesses to testify about his sanity during the penalty phase of his trial. Defense lawyers argued that is an unconstitutional restriction on his right to build a defense. They also contended the law doesn't define cooperation.

Judge Carlos Samour Jr. rejected those arguments last week and said the laws are constitutional.

The next step is an evaluation of Holmes by state doctors to determine whether he was insane at the time of the shootings. That could take months.

Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to distinguish right from wrong caused by a diseased or defective mind.

If jurors find Holmes not guilty by reason of insanity, he would be committed indefinitely to the state mental hospital. He could eventually be released if doctors find his sanity has been restored, but that is considered unlikely.

If jurors convict him, the next step is the penalty phase, during which both sides call witnesses to testify about factors that could affect why Holmes should or shouldn't be executed.

The jury would then decide whether Holmes should be executed or sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.

If jurors impose the death penalty, it would trigger court appeals and open other possibilities that would take years to resolve.

[notorious]

It doesn't matter if he is sane or insane, he needs to exit this world.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by notorious

It doesn't matter if he is sane or insane, he needs to exit this world.

this. he's too dangerous to leave alive. goodbye.

[DaFace]

For what it's worth, this ordeal is over.

12 consecutive life sentences, plus 3,318 years in prison.

Hope he rots in there. Asshole.

http://www.denverpost.com/theater-sh...ces-plus-3-318

[The Franchise]

Holy shit.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Holy shit.

Maximum sentence on all 165 counts. Not that it matters after the first couple, but the judge wasn't ****ing around.

[TimeForWasp]

[Dayze]

i only hope the judge dropped the gavel like a mic drop and walked out of the courtroom.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Dayze

i only hope the judge dropped the gavel like a mic drop and walked out of the courtroom.

From the sound of it, it was pretty damn close to that. He actually ended with "Get the defendant out of my courtroom, please."

[Mother****erJones]

Originally Posted by DaFace

For what it's worth, this ordeal is over.

12 consecutive life sentences, plus 3,318 years in prison.

Hope he rots in there. Asshole.

http://www.denverpost.com/theater-sh...ces-plus-3-318

Just in case he's ****ing Dracula?

[Rain Man]

I'm glad the life sentences are consecutive and not concurrent.

It would be interesting if they left the body in the cell on cases like these for the full sentence, so if you're some future generation guy in the cell it looks like this:

[Donger]

He looks pretty broken up about it...