Wide-eyed, swaying and despondent – the gunman suspected of brutally slaying 12 people during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado has appeared in court for the first time.
James Holmes, 24, who has dyed his hair red in a reported bid to look like The Joker, sat silently and looked straight ahead in Arapahoe County Courthouse as he heard the charges against him.
Holmes is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder after he shot dead 12 cinema-goers and wounded 58 in a horrifying shooting spree just after midnight on Friday morning.
It comes as prosecutors said they are seeking the death penalty for the suspected shooter, a former PhD student described as an outsider who is believed to have recently gone through a break up.
Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers said that her office is considering pursuing the death penalty and that a decision would be made in consultation with victims’ families.
Legal experts told the Denver Post that Holmes’s attorneys are likely to pursue an insanity defense.
‘You just have to imagine that there is something in his psychiatric makeup that will be exploited by his defense team,’ former Adams County District Attorney Bob Grant told the paper. ‘I don’t know what else they are going to say.’
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10 Responses
Why do you have to include his picture?
#1 it is necessary to look upon the face of evil so we will recognize it, did u object to seeing levi aarons picture here?
to #2.
Indeed I do. Even more so.
You wrote:
“it is necessary to look upon the face of evil so we will recognize it”
Oh yeah! sez who?
The Goq
WADR he looks like a regular nice guy you cant look at him and say oh thats the face of a killer. Many killers dont look like killers until one day they kill someone.
The only exception is the Nazis and even there not all looked evil.
The frum media sites continue to put up and share pictures of murderers and other wicked people. Not much to do, since they really, arent on the same page as those who dont want to look at such faces.
We are told by the Sages, not to look at one who is angry, as it is like looking at an idol. Generally, its jewish custom to not look into the face of the wicked! We dont want to see their faces. We know evil all too well, why make us loo into its face?
Where was Batman?
None of you people understand anything! There was no Nazi in him and YES it’s necessary to look at a picture of him just in case he knocks outside your houses then you can call the cops.
WIY says:
July 23, 2012 at 4:21 pm
The Goq
WADR he looks like a regular nice guy you cant look at him and say oh thats the face of a killer. Many killers dont look like killers until one day they kill someone.
The only exception is the Nazis and even there not all looked evil.
only when they wore their unifomr
To No. 6 (Yak)
12 families are grieving over those who were niftar and there likely will be others among the critically injured and you are making jokes??? How sick can you get?
i think you guys are overbored this isnt a sefer this is a site about the important world news
draw the line between reading a sefer or reading whats happening in our crazy world you cannot have both
dont read news altogether