This situation is really an explosion on the outskirts of Denver mourning Saturday as bomb experts to disarm a trap apartment of James Holmes, who said police spent months collecting explosives, weapons and ammunition and then went to the movies Friday morning and started shooting.
Neuroscience students fail, which is scheduled to appear in court Monday, remains a puzzle - a young man who, despite the problems in academia are so severe that he was quitting his graduate school program, showing no obvious signs on the verge of extreme violence.
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The police chief, Dan Oates, said he and the officer was targeted by a complex network of explosives in the apartment Holmes.
"These apartments are designed, I say, based on everything I saw, to kill anyone who entered it," Oates said at a news conference. "That would be a cop, right? Make no mistake about what is going on there. Do you think we are angry, we sure as hell is angry."
Aurora police said Saturday night that all the explosives were removed from the apartment and that FBI agents had gone inside to check out other evidence.
Bomb squad job protracted Holmes's apartment occurred on the day when the Aurora citizens to learn the names of 12 people were killed and 58 wounded in the attack in the movie theater 16 Century, where a crowd of mostly young people up to midnight on Friday morning screening of the movie Batman new, "The Dark Knight Rises."
Among those killed were two members of the military, a man celebrates 27th birthday and a girl of 6 years, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, a 25-year-mother, Ashley Moser, in critical condition and semi-conscious with multiple gunshot wounds of the throat and stomach.
President Obama will travel to Colorado on Sunday to visit the shooting victims and their families in the Aurora, the White House said Saturday night.
Holmes, 24, has no criminal record. He was held without bond in the Arapahoe County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder, reportedly in solitary confinement, and although he has not been formally charged, police said no other suspects. He is being represented by public defenders office.
Police learned of Holmes when they arrested him that his apartment was booby-trapped. It is not clear why Holmes, minutes after allegedly shooting a stranger in a movie house, told police about the explosives.
Oates said that for four months, Holmes has received a large number of commercial packages, the head of it enabled him to assemble the ingredients in a small apartment warehouse traps and weapons and ammunition allegedly used in the massacre.
"What we see here is the proof, I think, some calculation and deliberation," the police chief said.
Detectives are not able to investigate the 800-square-foot third-floor apartment because Holmes complex web of chemical and incendiary devices, numbering about 60 people. Efforts to defuse and disarm the explosives are made all the more delicate by the need to preserve criminal evidence.
In a hallway near the front door, a wire filament was hung on the tripwire waist height, according to a law enforcement source. The tripwire connected to two containers of chemicals which, when mixed, can create an explosion.
The bomb squad disarmed the setup by sending a robot that slips under a tripwire and removed from the bottle of liquid.
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Then comes the 30 round tube in the living room. It's like fireworks packed with gunpowder - "homemade grenade," the official call them. Cables run from the device to the "control box" in the apartment kitchen. It is not clear, the official said, how they should be blown up.
The authorities use a "fire bottle" - a small explosive that sends a wave of water at high speeds - to destroy the control box.
Finally, the official said, there are about three jars in the living room filled with what appears to be a combination of liquid and powder. "Improvised Napalm," said the official. This is not rigged to explode, but will likely have to leave in a "sympathetic explosion" if other explosive devices had been tripped. Which will provide additional heat and blast of power destructively.
Cleared with explosives, residents of four adjacent buildings could begin returning home. Some have been living in emergency shelters and others with friends and relatives.
"It went very, very good," said FBI Special Agent James Yacone Saturday afternoon.
The churches in the Denver area have changed their signs to honor the victims, and radio DJs have read the messages of support. But inside the home and the hospital room where the victim was recovered, the second day is said to be more difficult than the first. Adrenaline had worn off, leaving the reality of injury and loss.
That day was the first full day of living with what happened, and what happens is still not unreasonable.
Annie Dalton, Ashley Moser's aunt, told Associated Press that injured 25-year has been in and out of consciousness and was never told that her daughter, Veronica, did not survive the shooting.
"All he's asking about, of course, is his daughter," said Dalton, according to AP. "He is a dynamic 6-years. She was excited, he had just learned how to swim."
Navy and Air Force confirmed that John Larimer, 27, and Jesse Childress, 29, both stationed at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, was killed.
"Sailors are really interested in calm attitude and incredible work ethic," Cmdr. Jeffrey Jakuboski, Larimer commander, said the young officer. "He really did not have a bright future ahead of him in the Navy."
Lieutenant Colonel Pat Walsh, who oversees Childress in his work as a computer technician, said: "He really touched everyone in the wings, more than a thousand people .... We're going through this, but it's very difficult for us now."
Matt McQuinn, 27, died in the theater trying to protect his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, 27, along with his brother, Nick Yowler, 32. McQuinn and Nick Yowler Samantha stands for a shield from bullets. McQuinn hit the legs, chest and back, said attorney Rob Scott, a spokesman for the family. Yowler Samantha is in the hospital recovering from surgery after a bullet hit his knee.
Alex Sullivan of Aurora is located in the middle of the night to celebrate the birthday show 27 when he died.
"Alex is known as a bear hug," said his cousin Steve Schwab. "No matter how long since you were talking to him, he would always end the call with 'I love you.'"
Sullivan, known for his love of comics, working in theater in Aurora where he died. The Sullivans did not get confirmation from the authorities of his death until Friday night.
"What we continue to think is that he was in the theater helps everyone, because it would be a natural tendency," said Schwab.
Three helicopters circled above the movie theater Saturday afternoon. Nearby mall was closed. Several cars of the premiere Thursday night was still sitting behind the police tape in the parking lot.
End of the block, mourners dropped flowers at the memorial on the corner of an emergency. Two men stand and raise warning signs promoting Jesus - the one in the UK, one in Spain.
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