Crime

Bomb Squad Disarms Shooter’s Booby-Trapped Apartment in Aurora

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Authorities on Saturday began disarming trip wires and explosive devices “set up to kill” inside the apartment of the suspect in the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting, hoping to find clues to his motive without destroying key evidence in a blast.

Federal authorities detonated one small explosive and disarmed another inside James Holmes’ suburban Denver apartment, but several other explosive devices remained, said Aurora police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson.

Makeshift memorials sprang up for the 12 victims, including a U.S. navy sailor, an aspiring sportscaster and a man celebrating his 27th birthday, after police grimly went door to door with a list of those killed in the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history. Holmes, 24, was arrested early Friday outside the Aurora theater after witnesses say he unleashed gunfire and gas canisters on a crowd of moviegoers watching the midnight showing of the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

On Saturday, law enforcement officials began trying to disarm up to 30 devices in Holmes’ booby-trapped apartment, and set off a small explosion to detonate one device.

The devices were “set up to kill that person and that could have been a police officer executing a search warrant,” Carlson said. Police planned an intricate procedure to disarm the possible weapons without destroying evidence that could be in the apartment.

“We don’t want to lose evidential value,” Carlson said.

Federal officials said in a bulletin obtained by The Associated Press that they still hadn’t determined a motive for the suspect as families grieved and others waited at hospitals, where seven of the wounded remained in critical condition on Saturday with some injuries that could be permanent.

In his Saturday radio address, President Barack Obama urged Americans to pray “for the victims of this terrible tragedy, for the people who knew them and loved them, for those who are still struggling to recover

The victims included 23-year-old Micayla Medek, said Anita Busch, the cousin of Medek’s father. The family took the news hard, but knowing her fate after waiting without word brought them some peace, Busch said.

“I hope this evil act, that this evil man doesn‘t shake people’s faith in God,” she said.

Besides Medek, relatives confirmed that Alex Sullivan and Jessica Ghawi were among those killed, Sullivan on his 27th birthday.

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said Holmes used a military-style semi-automatic rifle, a shotgun and a pistol to open fire on the unsuspecting theater-goers. He had bought the weapons at local gun stores within the last two months. He also recently purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the Internet, the chief said.

The suspect’s stellar academic record, apparent shy demeanor and lack of a criminal background made the attack even more difficult to fathom.

It also wasn’t known why the suspect chose a movie theater to stage the assault, or whether he intended some twisted, symbolic link to the film’s violent scenes.

The Batman movie, the last in the trilogy starring Christian Bale, opened worldwide Friday with midnight showings in the U.S. The plot has the villain Bane facing Bale’s Caped Crusader with a nuclear weapon that could destroy all of fictional Gotham.

The Dark Knight Rises” earned $30.6 million in Friday morning midnight screenings, and, according to industry estimates, roughly $75-77 million on the day. That put it on track for a weekend total of around $165 million, which would be the second highest opening weekend ever, following “The Avengers.”

Warner Bros. has announced it would forgo the usual revenue reports until Monday out of respect for the victims. Sony, Disney and Universal also said they would delay reporting box office receipts until Monday, a day later than the routine Sunday releases for Hollywood.

In New York City, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said: “It clearly looks like a deranged individual. He has his hair painted red. He said he was the Joker, obviously the enemy of Batman.”

Oates would not confirm that information, but did say he spoke to Kelly. Asked whether Holmes had makeup to look like the Joker, Oates said: “That to my knowledge is not true.”

Near the entrance to the theater’s parking lot, a makeshift memorial of 12 candles sat in a row alongside piles of flowers. Up the hill from the theater, about 20 pastors led a vigil for 350 people, some hugging and crying. A sign read, “7/20. Gone Not Forgotten.”

An emotional Gov. John Hickenlooper said earlier Friday that people would not be defined by the tragedy.

“We are clear that we are going to rise back and lift ourselves above this,” he said.

A federal law enforcement official said Holmes bought a ticket to the movie, went into the theater as part of the crowd and propped open an exit door as the movie was playing. The suspect then donned protective ballistic gear and opened fire, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation.

Authorities said Holmes shot scores of people, picking off victims who tried to flee. At least one person was struck in an adjacent theater by gunfire that went through the wall. Adding to the terror and chaos were two gas canisters thrown by the suspect that filled the theater with smoke.

Tanner Coon, a 17-year-old Aurora resident who was watching the film with two friends, said he first thought the gunshots were firecrackers. When he realized what was happening, he ducked between seats and waited for the shooter to bark demands.

“When is he going to start telling us what to do? When is this going to become a hostage situation?” Coon said.

When the firing ended, Coon said he started running up the row but slipped in blood and fell on a woman who was lying on the ground. He tried shaking her, he said, but she didn’t respond, so he left her behind and ran from the theater.

The shooting was the worst in the U.S. since the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood, Texas. An Army psychiatrist was charged with killing 13 soldiers and civilians and wounding more than two dozen others. It was the deadliest in Colorado since the 1999 attack at Columbine High School, where two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher and wounded 26 others before killing themselves.

Holmes had enrolled last year in a neuroscience Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado-Denver, though he left last month for unknown reasons. In academic achievement, “he was at the top of the top,” recalled Timothy P. White, chancellor at the University of California, Riverside, where Holmes earned his undergraduate degree before attending the Denver school.

Those who knew Holmes described him as a shy, intelligent person raised in California by parents who were active in their well-to-do suburban San Diego neighborhood. Holmes played soccer at Westview High School and ran cross-country before going to college.

Police released a statement from his family Friday that said, “Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved.”

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  • Myhrtblongs2God
    Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:42am

    Yesterday one of the many articles I read said some of the other apartment dwellers were allowed to return to their apartments. If the Holmes apartment is still booby-trapped, then why put those who were allowed to return at risk? Also, I rest assured that Holmes did not begin and complete his sophisticated booby-trapping immediately before leaving his apartment to go to the theater. To be able to set up all the explosives etc., he needed possibly days or weeks to complete the job. How did he protect himself while in his apartment? If the entrance to his apartment was booby-trapped, how did he exit to go to the theater? With all the equipment, guns etc. he loaded in his car, it surprises me that a neighbor did not take notice of his activity and report him. Or perhaps was there someone else “holding” the equipment until he arrived to pick it up? Where was he when he donned the vest and protective covering he wore? If Security was in fact stationed at the theater, and Holmes “dressed” in the parking lot, would he have not been noticed? Also, in most cases there is a buzzer that sounds on emergency exit only doors. Why not in this theater? How did Holmes learn in just a few weeks how to master-mind his fiasco? He was intelligent, but he was a Medical student, the school did not teach explosives in the classes he took. Who programmed Holmes?

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    • Winedude
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 1:23pm

      He was a student at the School of Medicine but was not in classes leading to an MD…he was a Doctoral candidate.

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    • RetiredAmericanNavyTaxpayer
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:51pm

      @MYHRT

      Re dressing in the parking lot: I‘m given to understand that it’s a somewhat common practice for hard-core fans to attend favorite movies dressed as one of the characters. So donning Batman-like armor/attire in the parking lot would pass relatively unnoticed/unremarked except as “another of those nutty fans”.

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    • PRINZ KARL
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:13am

      There’s a new thing called the internet,you don’t have to be a genius to find recipes for all kinds of nasty improvised explosives. Who says he ever had the weapons and gear in the apartment, could have been kept in the trunk of his car. Just because he set the bombs up doesn’t mean they were armed or connected to the trip wires until he armed them on the way out.For what it’s worth the apartment was probably rigged to be a diversion to draw first responders away from the theater.He used a timer to start blaring techno music to draw a noise complaint and take out the first person in the door. The neighbor who went to the apartment saw the bombs and backed out.He had a degree in pharmaceuticals and obviously a grasp of chemistry to build binary explosives.Trying to write in an agenda or a second perp isn’t supported by any evidence. There is just an extremely intelligent person who reacted to academic and social failure with a vicious and obsessive desire to make society “pay” for his imagined wrongs.

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  • Moester
    Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:15am

    I bet this holmes guy hasn’t had coitus in a long time either. Some affection from a woman would of prevented this incident imho.

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    • Winedude
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 1:24pm

      I‘d be willing to bet dollars to donuts that you’re 100% correct on that guess…

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    • Budrow
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:25pm

      Yow well…he’s phucked now, for sure.

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    • PRINZ KARL
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:48pm

      He hadn’t had any since it had him, He was a maladjusted social under performer like George Hennard who had manhood issues and took it out on normal society. Go back and look at what Hennard wrote and what he did at the Luby’s in Killeen.Holmes is brighter but if you scratch the surface you will find a dysfunctional social loser.

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  • Harvey1
    Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:34am

    I think he intended to kill other apartment dwellers not policemen. If a neighbor came to his door to complain about the loud music and found the door slightly open he hoped that person would try to go inside. This would have triggered the booby traps and killed almost everyone in the building. This would have caused a huge response of fire fighters and law enforcement personnel. This would have reduced the number of police available to respond when he started his despicable shooting rampage.

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    • Moester
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:13am

      That’s a very astute observation Harvey. I agree with your assessment. Just as Holmes showed no mercy to the victims, absolutely no mercy should be shown him.

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  • Misha
    Posted on July 22, 2012 at 12:34am

    These guys are rock stars, IMO, and aren’t getting enough kudos for successfully disarming this wicked trap.

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  • RRFlyer
    Posted on July 22, 2012 at 12:32am

    I want to know how long before the left wing media starts making reports about everyone who caused this poor kid to have to resort to shooting people, as obviously he isn’t responsible for his own actions.
    Look at Columbine, how they portrayed Klebold and Harris as poor misunderstood outcasts who were bullied in school. When someone actually researched them it was proven that it was all lies. They were not unpopular, did not belong to their own gang, were not outcasts they were not members of the trench coat mafia, they did NOT target specific people to shoot. Yet the media persists on telling the lies about them

    But wait, it’s coming, someone will want to take away all the blame for this killer too and the lies will remain.

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    • David_Ross
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:04am

      You’re right, RRFLYER, the narrative is more important than the underlying story.Whatever (or whoever) inspired this deranged individual will have to be carefully couched (or covered up/ignored) to provide the proper narrative for poor benighted unwashed masses to properly understand.

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    • One4America
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:18am

      Don’t you know? He did not do this. Someone else did this. Anything done is done by someone else, so says our Dumbo in Chief. I am sure the so called media will point that out sooner than later.

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  • GrannyATL
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 9:47pm

    Every broadcast I‘ve seen regarding the explosives in this guy’s apartment (including the Police Chief’s comment) suggest he rigged his apartment to hurt first responders who would be coming after the shooting.

    Considering what he was carrying on his body and in his car at the theater, I have a very different scenario that seems more logical. He rigged music to spontaneously go off at midnight and turn off automatically at one. It was loud and would have naturally annoyed those who lived near him. A woman who lived below him actually did go to his apartment and knocked on the door, wanting to ask him to quiet down. When she knocked, the door opened a little and she almost pushed it open to call out to him, but decided against it.

    Think of this — IF she had gone ahead and opened that door, literally all hell would have broke loose. The amount of explosives in that apartment would have created a huge fireball that almost assuredly would have blown up several of the nearby apartments. The ensuing phone calls would have brought every available piece of emergency equipment within miles to that location within minutes.

    The shooter planned to have all emergency personnel too busy to come to the theater, thus allowing him to continue his shooting rampage for a good long while. Unfortunately, his rifle jammed and thwarted his plans.

    That scenario makes a lot more sense to me, considering the timeline of when the music started versus when the movie and shooti

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:51pm

    So, the question now is:
    “Who supplied the unemployed Holmes with all those weapons, ammunition, military gear and bomb materials?”
    America, and especially the victims and their families, deserve to know exactly who paid for all those items Holmes had.
    Let‘s hope we don’t get the same stonewalling which America got from Obama, Holder & our gov’t. about the Fast and Furious murderous gunrunning.

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    • The0bserver
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:01pm

      I want to know why these mass murderers think up these things and do them, and why we never heard about these things when I was a little boy in the 1950′s, when we had a lot less gun control laws and before the 1968 gun control act. Gun control has gotten stricter and stricter since, yet the murderous rampages are more frequent now. Why? What changed? (I’ve got some ideas, but my guess is that you aren’t ready for them.)

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    • Desertviper
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 8:12am

      On Coast to Coast tonight, there was discussion about the amount of money to purchase that equipment he had on. 20,000 dollars was the round figure used. He was on unemployment and paying for an apartment.
      This is a false flag event people. Over 200 GOV. employees showed up within 1 hour of event.
      This was a staged event and the GOVERNMENT knew it was coming.
      WAKE THE HELL UP!

      wake

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  • TROLLMONGER
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:36pm

    The media is OBSESSED with tragedies. I bet they sit around all day twiddling their finger salivating at the thought of death, destruction, and to happen just so they can go set up full blown stories about things like this. The media makes me sick!!! Anyone that chooses a career in the media is pure evil.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:07pm

    o snap hes not a Muslim.

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  • Cymry
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:35pm

    society is crumbling.
    1. the turning away from God.
    2. the affluency that has softened society’s resolve. (things are good, don’t rock the boat)
    3. progressive subversion of education, government, media.
    4. economic armageddon (this started with the federal reserve and escallated with the major liberal social programs) the collapse will be greater than the “Great Depression”
    5. moral turpitude becomming the norm.
    We who are the ones capable of turning the situation around CANNOT DO IT ON OUR OWN. if we try, we will fail and the fall will be quicker and deeper. We MUST ask for forgiveness from God, humble ourselves and allow His Holy Spirit to work through us to give us the victory. This victory will be one that we can’t even have imagined.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:22pm

      I don’t know about this murderer but I know about his boss…..This is what we have now. Killing and fear and chaos. It won;t get easier….ever . So who do we elect to surrender sovereignty?

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  • battles
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:20pm

    Has anyone mentioned that this whole incident might just be the corrupt Obama justice department.s ‘Fast an Furious’ II?

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:39pm

      Ironically they could not have pulled this off for it was successful .

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    • alshightech
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:14pm

      Yes I do believe this since his plan”Fast & Furriest” failed. I believe he will keep killing the innocent American people until him & Holder wins. The sad part is that the democrats will go along with his terrorizing agenda. Is it because he is pushing for this GAY life for all.

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    • Deepizzaguy
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:57pm

      I would not be surprised.

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  • psychokittis
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:13pm

    It’s a sad weekend indeed. Let’s pray for the victims and their families. May the survivors recover quickly and may they and their families find some peace, if possible.

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  • flatbroke
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:00pm

    The more the ******** in the media find out about this guy, the more they will clam up. he was, into porn sites, raised in a home that did not include any religious beliefs, and super spoiled. A perect recipe for a mass murderer. He needs bullet between the eyes, b/c i dont believe in crazy.

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    • D-Fence
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:42pm

      The perfect Dem profile.

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    • The0bserver
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:03pm

      From what I’ve read, his fellow prisoners are working on that last sentence of yours. No love for kid killers in prison, from what I’ve heard.

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  • kindling
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:58pm

    This poor little rich boy is a OWSer and hates police. He was betting he would be caught or killed and had to make sure he left a present for his favorate people. If I were anyone around this animal I would also be careful of any packages sent to me. He seems to have thought this out very well.

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  • ImmediateRealityCheck
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:47pm

    So ABC dropped extensive coverage? Humm- Could it be because they have either 1) found no compelling reason to maintain coverage (ie. They have found no connections with Holms and the Tea Party, right-wing extremism, ect) or 2) they have found connections with Occupy Wall street, envirowackos, liberal causes, homosexual activism etc, in which case they will drop him like a hot potato with only minimal obligatory coverage (we already know he is a registered Democrat, which is enough to cool most networks jets). Of course this is taking for granted that the actual tragedy itself is not enough of itself to justify coverage for the MSM except to temporarily bump ratings with out being able to connect it to some democrat narative/agenda. Let them make a right-wing connection, and you will see this story instantantly fanned to white-hot, wall-to-wall coverage. The faster Holms drop as a person of interest to the MSM, the more suspicious I become.

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    • kindling
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:50pm

      That would be E. all of the above.

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:42pm

      you can bet they ( abc ) will not find / report any of those findings ? Did anyone notice ? ……..
      Just like travon/ zimmerman, when the truth’s started to come out they were long gone / off the story .

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  • Ross55
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:57pm

    OK, I have got to ask this. Has anyone else thought about this?

    Now the blame rest 100% on this crazy fool, no doubt.

    But why did the theater not have some security in place for such a big event? They are there on the weekends. Surely this was as big a crowd as weekends.
    In the video I have seen from the in air camera, I see tons of police cars, to cops holding open the doors and no people. They said the cops go there really quick, did any rush in? I got to believe they did.

    Just so sad. I guess its easy to think through these things when its all over and your not there. Man I hope and pray something like this never happens again.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:32pm

      I can only venture to say a combination of being lulled into complacency by having had no other serious events happen. Another thing is, who would ever expect such an horrendous thing like this shooting, and ambush to happen? Then, there is the lowest common denominator, the theater’s bank account. I’m sure there are lawyers who have been absolutely orgasmic since yesterday morning.

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:33pm

      What additional security would the theater need? It was a “Gun-Free Safe Zone” after all.

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    • Miami
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:00pm

      OlefromMN
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:33pm
      What additional security would the theater need? It was a “Gun-Free Safe Zone” after all.

      Gee that didn’t work very well now did it…?

      “Gun-free Zones” is another term for target rich area…

      When they make owning a gun a crime, only criminals will have guns….!

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    • alshightech
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:11pm

      REMEMBER HE HAD NO MILITARY TRAINING wow HE WAS BORN SO SMART!

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    • Misticbuttrain
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:41am

      Ok I literally live 3 miles from the Century 16. I walked there a lot to see movies and the only thing that kept me from being in theater 8 that night was a lack of funding. The cops got there so fast because the main headquarters and jail is a block away and there is a substation across the street.

      As for why there wasn’t more security there…its not a bad neighborhood…the cops that are normally there are there to keep the wanna be gangsters from sneaking into the movies. They catch about 10-20 a week trying to do so. They aren’t really there because things like this happen there…they are there to stop theft.

      This was just a deranged individual…a very very sick psychopath.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:51pm

    …
    http://www.foxnews.com/

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:47pm

      I hate to go off in the wrong direction but, the story that jumped out at me on that page was the one about the union nurses alledgedly sabotaging the Alzheimer‘s patients at nursing homes because they and SEIU aren’t getting what they want. Hey Blaze…follow up please!

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  • Zcat
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Thank goodness fox is following this because ABC is no longer doing the live feed!!! It ticks me off that they just stopped!

    Anyway, if The Blaze finds another live feed on this woould you please post the info. Thanks!

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    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:50pm

      …
      FOX is doing a live feed.

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    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:52pm

      …..
      http://www.foxnews.com/

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:25pm

      Have been watching this for the last few minutes. From what I can see, of all of the super expensive pieces of equipment they have, an 18 volt reciprocating saw would probably have been the most handy and efficient at removing those window mullions.

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    • Zcat
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:33pm

      Thanks, i finally saw the fox link that put up.

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    • Winedude
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 1:28pm

      What a tragedy! Even worse are the sick puppies that want to sit around all day watching live feeds form the crime scene. GET A LIFE folks.

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  • Rosalyn
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:43pm

    I also hope they stay safe and that the place doesn’t conveniently explode.

    Hopefully we will also get some answers as to where this 24 year old unemployed student got the money to pull this off. I don‘t doubt he is intelligent enough but I’d like to know where he got the funds. I also know we will never get that answer.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:43pm

      The media is starting to show some interest in the same thing now. We may find out after all. A friend of mine and I were wondering about this last night too. I did notice that the media did say that authorities were searching the research lab at the school where Holmes “worked.” Did he do his school work there, or did he have a job inside the research lab where he earned extra money? Also, did his parents pay for his day to day existence expenses or did they send him more money than he may have needed? Naturally, we do not yet know. Also, as intelligent as Holmes was reported to be, was he earning extra funds by performing underhanded deeds in a criminal way? We will likely not know until authorities can gain access to his apartment to hopefully find any manifestos, records, receipts, and a computer or computers. But, only time will tell.

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:45am

    Axe the black panthers to go in and disarm it…or Jesse J or Al Sharpton, better yet, all de bove..

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  • txblaze
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:31am

    Praying all goes well.
    Don’t want to give Crazy James a reason to be happy today.

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    • MittensKittens
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:39am

      Who’s James? Oh yeah, don’t give any fame or recognition…PLEASE.

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  • jcizarter
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:29am

    I would love to be on this team. I need a job really bad and would be willing to work on dismantling explosives. First of all they should take this monster to his own apt and make him dismantle the bomb. Why are we so crazy about doing things like this? If he blew himself up, it would save the tax payers billions of dollars in attorney fees and court fees, food, clothing, and housing this blood sucker.

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:38am

      I had the same thought .. these nut cases like to show how smart they are … then again I think if I lived in one of the surrounding apartments I might not be so keen on letting him have the chance to blow it up along with everything I own. But it is a shame we are going to waste so much money on this murdering pos .. no one doubts he did it … he should get a quick trial and an even faster execution .. sadly it will go on for years and years.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:00pm

      CATB, Holmes will never be executed. If anything he will likely be institutionalized for a lengthy period, if not the remainder of his life. As we have often heard, there is a fine line between being highly intelligent and insanity. My feeling is that he will be either found ‘not guilty’ on the grounds of insanity, or a judge will declare him too insane to stand trial. In my view, to release him any time in the future would be a criminal sentence upon mankind at large. But, if it did happen, it would not be the first. They are after all flirting with the eventual release of John Hinkley Jr. And, no JZS. I am not that concerned that he shot our favorite modern day president on the right, but his reasoning for doing it. Truly insane and no telling what he will do for an encore.

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    • Sirius3
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:22am

      Absolutely agree… send him in to his own apartment, let him set off or try to dismantle all the booby traps. Why should our law enforcement guys knowingly be put at risk?

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  • txblaze
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:27am

    Praying all goes well.
    Let’s not give Crazy James a reason to be happy today.

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:22am

    Comrades, how did this person manage to construct such a mess?

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    • All Pro
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:48am

      I think he should be waterboarded until he tells us who funded and trained him.

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:00pm

      How did he PAY for all this? Weapons, tons of ammo, body armor … etc. An unemployed student….

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:24pm

      CATB, He used coupons and saved up.

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    • Ducky 1
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 12:24pm

      I am guessing he had a credit card. Now days you do not need a job to get a credit card.

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    • stuckinIL4now
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:16pm

      I don’t know, but Bill Ayers must be insanely jealous.

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  • hifi74
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:18am

    Well here’s hoping they all stay safe..

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