According to local media sources, gun and ammunition sales have escalated since Friday’s shootings in Aurora, Colorado. Over the weekend, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation approved 43 percent of background checks. On Friday, there were 1,216 checks alone. This is a 43 percent jump when compared to the average number of checks submitted during the […]
This weekend the country was once again forced to deal with the kind of violence normally reserved for the screens of a motion picture tragedy. James E. Holmes walked into a movie theater, wounding 58 and killing 12 and shocking a nation. The response has to this tragedy has been filled with the human empathy […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — His hair dyed orange-red and a dazed look on his face, the man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at the opening of the new Batman movie appeared Monday in court for the first time. An unshaven, handcuffed James Holmes, 24, sat in maroon jailhouse jumpsuit as the judge […]
Sybil Wilkes discusses today's news headlines including the Colorado massacre, Kile Glover's death, and more on TJMS.
Roland Martin talks with Dr. Chris Hill, Pastor of the Potter's House Denver about The shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — As the suspected gunman in the Colorado theater massacre heads to his first court appearance, authorities have disclosed that he is refusing to cooperate and that it could take months to learn what prompted the horrific attack on midnight moviegoers at a Batman film premiere. James Holmes has been held in […]
Investigation officials discovered that James Holmes was rejected by three women online shortly before the Colorado massacre. Officials learned that Holmes opened an account with AdultFriendFinder.com on July 5 and reached out to the women who eventually turned him down. In his online profile, Holmes described himself as looking for casual or even group sex. […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A pregnant woman who escaped the Colorado theater attack uninjured is delivering her baby as her wounded husband lies in a hospital in critical condition. The father of 21-year-old Katie Medley said she was giving birth Monday. The father, David Sanchez, said his daughter's husband, 23-year-old Caleb Medley, was shot in […]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Despair all around him, President Barack Obama on Sunday offered hugs, tears and the nation's sympathy to survivors of the Colorado shooting rampage and to families whose loved ones were shot dead. He looked for hope in the heartbreak, insisting a brighter day will come for the grieving and declaring that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And Barack Obama's White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 people in a mass shooting at a new Batman movie screening in suburban Denver. […]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Details emerging on the Colorado massacre suspect show a budding scientist, brimming with potential, who pursued a graduate program even as he assembled weaponry he would allegedly use in the deadly midnight rampage inside an Aurora movie theater. James Holmes planned the attack with "calculation and deliberation," police said Saturday, receiving […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials say the suspect in Friday's deadly shooting in Colorado is James Holmes, a 24-year-old white American. Officials believe Holmes killed a dozen people when he fired into a crowded movie theater in a Denver suburb. He was wearing a gas mask and set off an unknown gas in […]
