Defense lawyers for the man accused of opening fire in a US theater in July, killing 12 and wounding dozens more, readied Wednesday to call witnesses in a bid to stop the case from going to trial. The preliminary hearing, which began on Monday, has been emotionally harrowing as relatives…
The man accused of shooting dead 12 people inside a Colorado cinema was relaxed but “out of it” in the moments after the massacre, a court has heard . James Holmes, who is alleged to have sprayed the audience of a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises with bullets,…
The alleged gunman behind the Colorado theater massacre is due in court Monday for a week-long preliminary hearing likely to hear chilling details about the shooting at a Batman film premiere. A judge will decide if there is enough evidence to stage a full trial for James Holmes, accused of…
LOS ANGELES — A judge agreed to delay a court hearing for alleged US cinema shooter James Holmes after the 24-year-old was hospitalized, having reportedly rammed his head into a wall, a spokesman said. Holmes, accused of gunning down 12 people and wounding 58 more at a screening of Batman…
Injured victims of a deadly US shooting at a screening of the latest Batman movie sued the theater operators for alleged negligence over security, local media reported. Two lawsuits filed in Denver on Friday claimed there were no guards on duty for the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises”…
CENTENNIAL, Colorado — The man suspected of gunning down 12 people at a screening of the new Batman movie last month is mentally ill, his defense lawyer said, seeking more time to assess his health. James Holmes faces two counts of first degree murder for each person killed in the…
CENTENNIAL, Colorado — Prosecutors charged grad school dropout James Holmes on Monday with killing a dozen people and trying to slay scores more in one of the worst mass shootings in US history. The 24-year-old neuroscience student allegedly burst into a midnight viewing of the latest Batman film, “The Dark…
Alleged Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes is due to make his second court appearance on Monday as he is charged with committing one of America’s worst ever mass shootings. The few journalists allowed to attend the hearing will be watching to see if there is a repeat of the 24-year-old’s…
AURORA, Colorado — The suspected Batman movie premiere gunman was seeing a university psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia before the shooting that killed 12, court documents showed Friday. James Holmes sent a notebook to Lynne Fenton, who teaches at the University of Colorado’s medical school and heads student mental services there,…
AURORA, Colorado — Alleged Colorado shooter James Holmes reportedly sent a warning package to a psychiatrist at his former university more than a week before massacring people at a cinema. The parcel appeared to have arrived at the University of Colorado on July 12 but sat opened until after the…