aurora shooting
Jurors deliberated for less than seven hours before deciding whether the 27-year-old convicted shooter will get a lethal injection or life behind bars.
The first suit has been filed by a victim's widow against the University of Colorado in the aftermath of the Aurora, Colo. Theater shooting last July.
Police officers on the scene after the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting last summer described the carnage in graphic detail in the first court hearings in the case.
The former graduate student accused of shooting a dozen people to death at a Colorado movie theater last summer sat impassively in court on Monday as police recounted the nightmarish mix of blood, tear gas, screams and flashing strobe lights they found in the darkened cinema.
The accused Colorado movie theater shooter, James Egan Holmes, finally heads to court for the preliminary hearing in a case pitted against him for opening fire at a movie house killing 12 people and injuring 60 others. Today, many of the surviving victims are hoping that the 24-year-old former Ph.D student pleads 'guilty' rather than 'not guilty' on insanity.
Only a handful of days have passed since the elementary school shooting in Connecticut that killed 26 people, many of them children, the call for stronger gun control laws appears to be gaining ground among more Americans in many of the recent polls.
Attempted shooter was under doctor care for mental illness
