December 13, 1987 - James Holmes
The Aurora theater shooting stands as one of the deadliest mass casualty events in modern American history, carried out by a doctoral student with no prior criminal record against a crowd gathered for a midnight film premiere. Holmes wounded or killed 82 people in a matter of minutes, a scale of harm that shaped subsequent national debates about public safety, mental health, and the insanity defense. His trial — and the single juror's vote that kept him off death row — became a focal point for those questions.
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James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is an American convicted mass murderer who perpetrated the 2012 Aurora theater shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others (62 directly and eight indirectly) at a Century 16 movie theater on July 20, 2012. He had no known criminal background before the shooting occurred. Before the shooting, Holmes booby-trapped his apartment with explosives, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad.
Holmes was arrested shortly after the shooting and was jailed without bail while awaiting trial. Following this, he was hospitalized after attempting suicide several times while in jail. Holmes entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which was accepted. His trial began on April 27, 2015. On August 26, 2015, Judge Carlos Samour sentenced Holmes to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole after the jury spared Holmes the death penalty by a single vote.
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