Batman cinema shootings: police prepare to enter suspect’s flat

Holmes had purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet before the
massacre, police said.

He was carrying a Glock pistol, a 12-guage shotgun and a high-powered AR-15
assault rifle fitted with a drum magazine. Another Glock pistol was found
inside his car that had been parked outside a fire exit.

Dozens of law enforcement officials arrived at the apartment of suspect James
Holmes at dawn on Saturday, but were unable to enter the top floor flat
after investigations using a pole mounted camera revealed the booby traps.

Aurora police chief Dan Oates said photographs from inside the building
revealed it the apartment contained “things that look like mortar rounds”.

He added: “I’ve personally never seen anything like what we’ve found in
there.”

Firefighters have also been conducting tests on any gases being given off from
inside the flat in an attempt to identify what chemicals might have been
used in the booby traps.

Meanwhile hundreds of mourners gathered for a vigil near the cinema in Aurora
on Friday night, leaving candles and flowers outside in memory of those who
had been killed.

Thirty people remain in hospital with 11 of those in a critical condition.

Police declined to say what, if anything, Holmes said to them following his
arrest. The motives for the massacre are still unclear and police have
refused to say if they have managed to establish any possible reason for the
attack.

Holmes had no criminal record other than a speeding fine while friends and
family described him as a “nice guy” who had shown no signs that
he might be dangerous.

Holmes’ family issued a statement of sympathy for the victims, saying: “Our
heart goes out” to their loved ones, while they also asked for privacy
from the media while they “process this information.”

President Barack Obama called the shootings a reminder that life is fragile
and promised that the federal government stood ready to do all it could to
seek justice for the “heinous crime.”

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