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Mugshot of James
Holmes by Arapahoe County Detention Center, Colorado, USA, after arrest as
suspect in 2012 movie theater shooting, showing dyed hair and dazed aspect for 2012
Aurora shooting
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SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holmes_(mass_murderer)
James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is an American convicted on 24
counts of murder and 140 counts of attempted murder for the 2012 Aurora shooting that killed 12 people and
injured 70 others at a Century movie
theater in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012. He had no
known criminal record prior to the shooting. Holmes booby-trapped his apartment
with explosives before the shooting, which were defused one day later by a bomb
squad.
Holmes
was arrested shortly after the shooting and jailed without bail awaiting trial.
Following this, he was hospitalized after attempting suicide several times
while in jail. Holmes entered a plea of not
guilty by reason of insanity, which was accepted. His trial began on April
27, 2015, and on August 24 he was sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences
plus 3,318 years without parole.
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