

The Aurora Fire Department arrived on scene to stage with medics. At this time, we have confirmed that five victims are deceased. The other officers on the scene located gunshot victims inside the building. A total of five officers were struck by gunfire. Additional officers began to arrive and were also fired upon. Two of the initial four officers entering the building were shot. The shooter killed five people and injured several others, including five police officers.Īt 1:28 officers arrived and were fired upon immediately. I do think there is enough evidence to put him on trial.Transcript How the Aurora Shooting Unfolded A gunman opened fire inside an industrial complex in Aurora, Ill., on Friday. "I know it's part of the process - but I can't do it. Jerri Jackson, whose 27-year-old son, Matt McQuinn, was killed as he shielded girlfriend Samantha Yowler, won't attend, either. "I'm not strong enough to go through this right now," she says. It takes you back to your own grief and doubles it.'' "You go right back to the day you lost your loved one.

"We were shaking and sobbing and crying in the back of the plane,'' Sandy Phillips says. On the morning of the Newtown massacre, Sandy and Jessica's stepfather, Lonnie, were boarding a plane for Denver to accept an honorary degree on Jessica's behalf from Metropolitan State University, where she had been studying to pursue a career as a sportscaster. San Antonio resident Sandy Phillips's 24-year-old daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was among those killed in the Aurora theater. For others, the hearing - and other mass shootings - are too painful reminders of loved ones lost. Some family members of victims will attend the hearings, in the main courtroom or in a private room that normally holds juries. At earlier hearings, Lynne Fenton, a university psychiatrist, said she had treated Holmes more than a month before the shootings but had no contact with him after June 11, when she reported concerns to campus police. Holmes' lawyers have suggested in prior court hearings that their client, who dropped out of the University of Colorado's neuroscience doctoral program after failing an oral exam in June, suffers from mental illness, a strategy that suggests an insanity defense. And Saturday morning, just 4 miles from the mall where the July shooting spree took place, four people were killed, including the suspected gunman, after a six-hour standoff at a townhome.
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history but has been overshadowed by a series of attacks capped by the massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month of 20 Sandy Hook Elementary School students and six school employees. It's among the largest mass shootings in U.S. The preliminary hearing will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to put Holmes on trial.
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Holmes, 24, faces 166 counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder in a July 20 shooting spree at a suburban Denver movie theater in Aurora that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded.

Prosecutors are scheduled to lay out their case against accused mass murderer James Holmes at a five-day preliminary hearing opening at Arapahoe County District Court here Monday.

