Molly Hughes has the top stories of the day for DPTV.
Day one of the Aurora theater shooting trial has proven to be an emotional one.
We’re carrying a live feed from the courtroom as both sides lay out their cases in opening statements. Prosecutors paint a picture of the gunman as a calculated killer who had an obsession with killing since childhood. We learned the journal or notebook that Holmes sent to his therapist will be seen by the jury, and that both psychiatric evaluations found James Holmes to be sane at the time of the mass killings.
The defense paints Holmes as a man who is delusional and mentally ill, telling the jury that all the evidence will all make sense if they look at it through the lens of mental illness.
Thatap a snapshot of day one. For more details and in-depth reports, .
…
At least after the funeral of a man who died in police custody.
Thousands of friends, family members and complete strangers turned out for the funeral of Freddie Gray. The 25-year-old suffered a severe spinal injury during a confrontation with police and died several days later.
It’s the latest touchstone in the national debate about excessive force by police. Baltimore police say they have credible threats that three notoriously violent gangs are joining forces to take out law enforcement officers.
…
The was gunned down as a result of gang violence, said a local gang expert. Nolan Ware, 22, was killed when a vehicle pulled up at his uncle’s funeral Saturday and someone inside opened fire.
Ware’s uncle, 61-year-old Abdul Rahim Muhammad was killed while in his front yard two weeks earlier.
Community activist Rev. Leon Kelly says both killings are gang related and are part of an ongoing turf war between the Oldies and the Crips.
Denver police have said they do not believe the killings are gang related.
…
Tyler Allen, the , says he wasn’t missing at all.
Parents of the 20-year-old communications major organized a massive search last week. Today, his roommates said Allen returned to his Boulder apartment after seeing a poster about his disappearance.
Allen told police he was on campus the whole time. Allen’s mother says it appears her son hadn’t eaten in days. He is undergoing a medical exam.
…
A marijuana social media network is making headlines after an acquisition sent stocks rising on Wall Street.
, a seed-to-sale tracking system. Mass Roots stock rose 11 percent to $1.52 on news of the acquisition.
Mass Roots has more than 275,000 users on its social networking app. It helps people connect to other cannabis users, find dispensaries and, now, will track live-pricing and inventory availability.
The post appeared first on .
