Tag: James Holmes
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One of the shooters at Nuggets’ 2023 victory celebration sentenced to prison
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A man who shot into a crowd celebrating the Denver Nuggets 2023 NBA Championship victory downtown was sentenced to 35 years in prison on attempted murder and drug charges, with an eight year sentence to be served concurrently. Ricardo Vasquez injured four people early in the morning on June 13, 2023, as revelers spilled out…
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Q&A: Psychiatrist who interviewed Aurora mass shooter talks about what legally insane means
The murder trial of Ahmad Alissa, who faces multiple charges in the killing of 10 people at a King Soopers in Table Mesa in Boulder three years ago, has reached its final days after two weeks of complex and often emotional testimony. The prosecution and the defense made their closing arguments to the Boulder jurors…
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Aurora foundation makes paper crane wreath for Maine in wake of mass shooting
“I’m reminded of the people who are grieving, who were left behind, and the importance of paying the love forward that was given to us.” Those words drive Heather Dearman, the CEO of the 720 Foundation, which was born in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting to support people and communities healing after mass…
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Psychiatrist of Aurora theater shooter speaks out: ‘It’s impossible to spot these mass shooters in advance.’
The psychiatrist who treated James Holmes has stopped questioning whether she could have stopped the Aurora theater shooting from happening. Dr. Lynne Fenton saw her “weirdly awkward” patient six times between March 23 and June 11, 2012. Ten years later, she insists that mental health care cannot prevent mass shootings. “It’s so frustrating. There’s no…
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Colorado’s deadliest shooters: Male, mostly young and signs of mental illness
Dylan Klebold wielded an Intratec TEC-DC9, an assault weapon originally conceived as a machine gun for South African police. His friend Eric Harris carried a Hi Point 995, a cheap short-barreled rifle. Both also brought shotguns sawed off to spray ammunition widely. Together they fired 188 rounds at Columbine High School, killing 12 classmates and…
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INSIGHTS | Gunfire in the South rings in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Galleria mall in Hoover, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb, seemed as much a carnival as it was a shopping center. It opened on a Wednesday in February 1986, two weeks after the space shuttle exploded. The size of big-city airport, it was the biggest in…