Reid spent a total of 24 hours interviewing Holmes in July and August , two years after the massacre. Reid also reviewed 80, to 85, pages of documents provided by prosecutors, the defense and law enforcement.
Reid said society will likely never have a comprehensive understanding of what led Holmes to commit murder. Reid said he relied on the court records, including his videotaped interviews with Holmes, which were shown to jurors during the trial. The book includes a handful of previously unknown facts, the most startling of which is that Holmes suggested to Reid in one of their videotaped interviews that he might kill again if given a chance.
But Reid told the AP he doubted Holmes was a serious threat to other prisoners. The book also offers a glimpse of the extraordinary steps that state District Judge Carlos Samour — now a Colorado Supreme Court justice — took to prevent pretrial leaks.
Emails involving the case were encrypted, and some documents were delivered to Reid in person, instead of by mail or parcel service. The book knocks down a half-dozen stories that circulated around the case. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist and a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, agreed that Reid did not have a doctor-patient relationship with Holmes. Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but Reid and the other court-appointed psychiatrist, Jeffrey L.
In Pearson's closing statement, she said there is an abundance of direct evidence that Holmes "wanted to kill call of them. He knew what he was doing. She said that Holmes had a "depravity of human heart" and that he "went into the theater without knowing or caring who they are.
Pearson said prosecutors made a decision not to include all of the people who were in theaters eight and nine that night. If they had, they could have had 1, counts against Holmes.
Instead, they included anyone who had physical injuries, including those with gunshot wounds and those who were hurt running out of the theater. There are counts in all. The judge has taken the case under advisement and there will be a status hearing or arraignment on Friday when the judge will decide whether the case will proceed to a full trial.
Holmes' attorneys have not yet said whether they plan on using a insanity defense, in which case Holmes could possibly be deemed unfit to stand trial. Another possibility is that the hearing could set the stage for a plea deal. This week's testimony has included emotional testimony from first responders, details about Holmes' elaborately booby trapped apartment , a rundown of his arsenal of legally purchased weapons and descriptions of his bizarre behavior following the shooting. We'll notify you here with news about.
Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. What was Holmes' state of mind on July 20, , when he opened fire at the midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" at the Century 16 multiplex in the Denver suburb of Aurora.
Was he sane or insane? The jury's answers to these questions could very well determine whether the year-old former grad student is executed or spends the rest of his days in a Colorado prison or mental hospital.
Most defendants testify to try to save themselves. But Holmes' words are providing the pillar for the prosecution's case against him. After 22 hours of sessions, court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid concluded that Holmes was mentally ill but legally sane. He invoked a diagnosis unfamiliar to most laymen: schizotypal personality disorder.
In other words, the expert said, Holmes was indeed sick and anti-social, but he was rational. Accused theather shooter has 'regrets' about shooting The defendant acknowledged to Reid that shooting people is "legally wrong. He also stated with conviction, "It's wrong to kill children. And yet Holmes bought a ticket for "The Dark Knight Rises" and entered Theater 9 around midnight, choosing a front-row seat.
He pretended to take a phone call and left through an emergency exit, propping the door open with a plastic doorstop. He returned 18 minutes into the movie, tossing a tear gas grenade into the audience. As panicked moviegoers scrambled for the exits, he fired a gauge pump action shotgun into the seats, then opened fire with an AR style semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity clip that jammed.
He also fired several shots with a Glock caliber pistol. The first of 41 calls to came in at about a. The police station is close by, and the first officers arrived about a minute later. They were greeted by a horrific scene: Blood, body tissue and spilled popcorn were everywhere, the air was filled with tear gas and gun smoke, and panicked people were screaming. Cell phones were going off, but nobody was answering them.
Ten people lay dead in the theater, and two more were pronounced dead at hospitals. Thirty-three shots found their mark: Four struck 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, and six found a year-old aspiring sports journalist, Jessica Ghawi, who had narrowly missed a deadly mass shooting a few weeks earlier at a Toronto food court.
Photos: Colorado shooting victims. Jonathan T. Blunk, 26, served for five years in the U. He died shielding a friend from the gunfire inside the theater. Hide Caption.
Alexander J. Boik, 18, was remembered by friends and loved ones as a "great person" whose "craziness touched hundreds," according to a Facebook page created in his memory. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jesse E. Childress, an Air Force reservist, was a cybersystems operator on active duty.
He was Gordon W. Cowden, 51, took his two teenage children to the theater. His children escaped unharmed. Jessica Ghawi, 24, was an aspiring sports reporter. She grew up in Texas before moving to Denver to try break into the television market there.
He had been in the service for about a year. Matthew R. McQuinn, 27, died trying to provide cover for his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, during the shooting, according to a family attorney. Yowler survived. Micayla C. Veronica Moser Sullivan, 6, was the youngest victim of the Aurora theater shooting. She had just learned how to swim. Alex M. Sullivan, 27, went to the movie to celebrate his birthday with his wife, two days before their first wedding anniversary.
Alexander C. Teves, 24, recently graduated from the University of Denver with a master's degree in counseling psychology. He died protecting his girlfriend. James Holmes told psychiatrist he has 'regrets' over theater shootings. Holmes told Reid, the court-appointed psychiatrist, that he felt remorse, especially about the little girl's death. It wasn't my intention to kill children or leave them parentless. In Holmes' skewed worldview, each life he took was worth a point, adding value to his own life.
If his life had value, he reasoned, he wouldn't have to kill himself. But he said he never wanted to build life points by taking the lives of children.
By the end of the movie theater shooting, Holmes believed he had raised his "life capital" to 13, while an ordinary person's would simply be worth a single point. He had accomplished his mission, even if getting arrested was the price he had to pay. But he said he gained nothing from injuring people or leaving them behind to grieve for the dead. He spoke of the 70 people wounded as "collateral damage. Theater shooter describes 'homicidal thoughts' in video Holmes sat down with Reid last summer after entering his insanity plea.
The defense has objected to Reid's testimony, saying it violates Holmes' Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. But Judge Carlos Samour has twice turned down defense demands for a mistrial, saying Holmes' attorneys should have raised the issue before Reid took the stand. More insights into Holmes' psyche -- some little more than disjointed ramblings -- are contained in a composition book he mailed to the office of Lynne Fenton, a psychiatrist who was treating him at a campus clinic at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
He sent the notebook the day before the shootings, seeking to explain how and why he had done it. It was important to him that people understand, Holmes later told Reid. The notebook was found unread in a mail bin and seized by police. It is dedicated to "Goober, Chrissy and Bobbo" -- pet names for his mother, sister and father -- and includes the message, "Love yuhs.
One lengthy passage bears the title "Insights into the Mind of Madness. An odd symbol resembling a combination of an infinity sign and the face of a space alien appears three times in the notebook. Holmes referred to the symbol as "Ultra-ception," explaining the meaning: "Any problem can be solved with death.
The word "Why?
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