After making his first appearance in court on Monday seemingly dazed, James Egan Holmes, alleged Colorado shooter, claims that he has no recollection of why he's in court on Friday. The 24-year-old, who opened fire in a packed Aurora movie house during the midnight screening of the "Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 and injuring 59, claims that he is suffering from amnesia.
However, authorities in the Arapahoe County Detention Center suspect that this could be a latest attempt to con the court, maybe harbingering a plea for insanity?
Although, there are no developments as to the motives of the shootings, police said that Holmes had purchased the assault rifles with which he carried on the killing the day he failed an exam hinting to an "underlying mental illness that was triggered by the stress of failure," according to reports by ABC News. But Holmes had starting accumulating ammunition and other arms a month prior to the killing.
On Wednesday, police recovered a journal that the Ph.D. drop-out sent the university physiatrist cautioning on the upcoming fatal event he planned. Unfortunately, the journal remained in an unchecked mail-box and was discovered only until it was too late.
Last Friday, 24-year-old James Egan Holmes opened fire in a packed Aurora movie theater in Colorado at a midnight screening of the "Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 people and injuring 70. Colorado police arrested him later that Friday morning and immediately took him into custody.
Police found his apartment to be inundated with ammunition in addition to being booby trapped. It was finally dismantled Thursday, and the evacuated residents were allowed to return.
Holmes will likely be charged with first-degree murder and possibly aggravated assault and weapon violations. He will be formally charged later next week.
Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers told News Day that she is considering pursuing the death penalty, but only after consulting with the victims and their families.
On Monday, Holmes showed up to court looking rather absent minded with bright orange hair. He did not speak and Colorado police Chief Daniel Oates told the media that he was not cooperating with authorities. Oates also stated that the suspect's parents were also "not talking to us (the police) right now...Maybe that will change, but right now they are not talking to us," according to Good Morning America on ABC.
He is currently being kept in solitary confinement at an Arapahoe County detention facility.
