BAM!! BAM!! 14 audience were killed
The premiere of Batman The Dark Knight Rises movie in Aurora, Colorado, USA, Friday (20/7), led to the tragedy. A gunman, an estimated age of 20, shooting indiscriminately into the audience in the cinema.
"Batman Shooting" was preparing 6000 bullets
The gunman who shot the audience at the premiere of the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, United States, are known to buy more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet in the last two months, the police chief said on Friday (07/20/2012).
All the ammunition was purchased legally, as well as the four guns used by the perpetrators named James Holmes, at a local gun shop in the last 60 days, said Dan Oates, Aurora police chief.
At the same time, Oates revealed the latest information from the victim, which is about 70 people. Of the 12 deaths, 10 of whom died at the scene.
"Almost everyone was shot," he said. He said that only a few who were hospitalized did not have gunshot wounds, but was injured in the chaos.
"In the last 60 days, (Holmes) purchased four guns at local metro gun shops and through the Internet, he purchased over 6,000 rounds of ammunition," said Oates, who several times seemed to be controlled emotion.
Ammunition consisting of over 3,000 bullets for assault rifles, 3,000 bullets for Glock pistols and 300 bullets for the rifle.
"Also through the Internet, he purchased multiple magazines for the .223 caliber assault rifle, including one 100-round drum magazine, which was recovered from the scene," Oates said.
"I'm told by experts that with that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50 to 60 rounds... within one minute. And as far as we know, it was a pretty rapid pace of fire in that theater," Oates said.
"My understanding is that all the weapons that he possessed he possessed legally, and all the clips that he possessed, he possessed legally, and all the ammunition he possessed, he possessed legally," He added.
Recent shooting indiscriminately picked up the debate on control of firearms ownership in the United States. A lobby that supported the National Riffle Association (NRA) has accused President Barack Obama sided with the United Nations treaty to limit the constitutional rights of Americans to own firearms as much as they want.
Accompanied by his psychiatrist
James Holmes when accompanied by his lawyer in the inaugural session on Tuesday (24/07).
Shooting suspects at the premiere of Batman in Aurora, Colorado, USA, had been undergoing examination by a psychiatrist of his alma mater, according to court records.
James Holmes, 24 years old, examined by a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he studied neuroscience for a year.
However, the contents of a document issued by a court on Friday (27/07), did not mention how many times that Holmes met his psychiatrist, Lynne Fenton.
Lynne Fenton is known as a medical professor at the university with a specialization in psychiatric disorders types of schizophrenia. She also serves as director of student mental health services.
A number of earlier reports said Holmes send a package containing a note and a picture of how he would slaughter the people in the theater in Aurora to the university, before the incident.
Holmes' attorney to question the information, and assume that the note was an attempt of communication between himself and his doctor, so it is highly confidential.
Not yet known whether the note was received by campus officials prior to the shooting on 20 July.
The university statement said, a note arrived, and then probed on Monday (23/07), three days after the incident.
James Holmes was accused of killing 12 people and wounded 58 others at the premiere of the latest Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado, a week ago.
When the first hearing was held on Tuesday (24/07) and then, Holmes did not seem fully aware of what happened when he sat in court.
He was wearing a red prison uniform with his hair dyed orange.