At 12:41 a.m. Friday, a man authorities say was James Eagan Holmes opened fire inside theater 9 at the Century Aurora 16 at the Town Center of Aurora mall. He was armed with a handgun, an assault-style rifle and a shotgun, and was dressed in black with body armor and a gas mask.
Bullets and shrapnel hit nearly all of the 70 people, killing 12. Police arrived within 90 seconds, and 5 minutes after the shooting, they arrested Holmes on the south side of the theater. At various locations they found the rifle, shotgun, two pistols and a gas mask.
At 1:40 a.m., police called for bomb-sniffing dogs after confirming Holmes’ apartment at 1590 Paris St. was booby-trapped to explode.
Saturday, bomb crews disabled a trip device and relocated 30 improvised explosive devices to a field east of Aurora, where they burned the material with diesel fuel.
— Joey Bunch
