Colorado Theater Shooting

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The owner of a Colorado movie theater could not have prevented a 2012 shooting that killed 12 people, a jury decided Thursday after victims argued that lax security allowed for the attack. The six jurors concluded that Cinemark was not liable for the rampage, siding with the nation’s third-largest theater chain […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The Latest on the civil trial over the Colorado theater shooting (all times local): 10 a.m. Jury selection is under way in the civil trial over the Colorado theater shooting brought by victims’ families. Opening arguments are expected later Monday, nearly nine months after the shooter, James Holmes, was sentenced to […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was formally sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday, more than three years after he carefully planned and executed a merciless attack on hundreds of defenseless moviegoers who were watching a midnight Batman premiere. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. had no other sentencing option after […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — At least 100 victims and witnesses of James Holmes’ deadly attack on a Colorado movie theater are expected to testify about the crime’s profound and continuing impact on their lives during a formal sentencing hearing starting Monday. The three-day hearing gives survivors a chance to share their harrowing stories with the […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The life sentence delivered by a divided jury to Colorado theater shooter James Holmes averts an uncertain path to execution in a state that has put only one man to death in nearly a half-century. Colorado rarely carries out capital punishment. Only one man has been put to death since 1967. […]

ENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The latest in the sentencing phase of the Colorado theater shooting trial (all times local): 10:05 a.m. An alternate juror in the Colorado theater shooting trial showed up in court wearing a Metallica T-shirt with the image of a man being electrocuted. Jurors were hearing arguments on whether Holmes should be […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was convicted Thursday in the chilling 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere after jurors swiftly rejected defense arguments that the former graduate student was insane and driven to murder by delusions. The 27-year-old Holmes, who had been working toward his Ph.D. in […]

8:25 a.m. (MDT) The parents of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes have been seen waiting in line to get into the suburban Denver courthouse where Holmes’ long-awaited death penalty trial is getting underway. Robert and Arlene Holmes of Rancho Penasquitos, California, have publicly pleaded for their son’s life to be spared through a plea bargain. […]

DENVER (AP) — The parents of Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes are pleading for him to be spared the death penalty. In a letter to The Denver Post published Friday, Robert and Arlene Holmes say they have always loved their son and do not want him to be executed. “He is not a monster. […]

DENVER (AP) — Eerie self-portraits that Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes took with his cellphone hours before the attack could be shown to jurors after the judge ruled that prosecutors can use evidence from the phone at his trial. Other photos on the phone amount to surveillance of the theater taken up to three […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — 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 […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect told a judge Monday he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, but the judge won’t rule on whether to allow that yet. Attorney Daniel King made the request in court, saying the defense now has a diagnosis for […]