2015
- CENTENNIAL, Colo. — 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.
- CENTENNIAL, Colo. — He said only fools would blame his murders on bad grades.“Most fools will misinterpret correlation for causation, namely relationship and work failure as causes,” Aurora theater shooter James Holmes wrote in his infamous spiral
- 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’s strange to look at the three rows of seats and see empty grey chairs.This latest juror, number 901, is a
- 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
- We’re 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’s a good thing. One of them, a mother of three in
- CENTENNIAL, Colo. — 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
- CENTENNIAL, Colo. — 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
- 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’t think he was being serious.“What do you want to do?” Datta
- CENTENNIAL, Colo. — 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
- CENTENNIAL, Colo. — 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’s a picture of a happy family—or what could have been