Update below: At a hearing this morning, the 18th Judicial District DA’s office formally informed suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes of the charges against him — and there are 142 of them. Westword was in this courtroom this morning and will provide detailed coverage of the hearing shortly. But…
Update below: Moments ago, we reached James Mapes, the man who was arrested late last night for visibly wearing a weapon into a Thornton movie theater. Mapes has a concealed-carry permit and says he wasn’t attempting to garner attention for Second Amendment-related subjects by wearing a gun in plain sight…
Dennis O’Dell was first taken into custody circa early May in relation to a hammer attack on his uncle — one allegedly fueled by a bad dream and their mutual interest in meth. Now, however, he’s been charged with murder, after his horribly injured relative died…
The face is pretty unmistakable: The features look strikingly similar to the now iconic visage that’s been burned into our collective consciousness over the past ten days. But this face doesn’t belong to the person alleged to have shot seventy people at an Aurora movie theater just after midnight on…
The family of Ashley Moser has been visited by tragedy yet again. The young mom’s daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, age six, was the youngest person to die in the Aurora theater shooting. Now, her loved ones have released a statement revealing that she suffered a miscarriage as a result of being…
David Goss is a sod farmer who a judge recently described as a “pillar of his community.” Unfortunately for Goss, this compliment was delivered in the context of said judge sentencing him to four years behind bars for a confrontation with an El Paso County deputy. And now that same…
As we noted in our collection of James Holmes memes, bad-taste attempts to mine chuckles from the Aurora theater shooting have been proliferating on the fringes of the Internet. But last week, Dane Cook, one of the country’s best-known stand-up comedians, waded into this territory, too, via an on-stage joke…
A court filing today made by the defense team representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes (see it and other documents below) offers up a series of revelations. It notes that Holmes was under psychiatric care prior to the attack, provides the name of the CU Denver staffer in question,…
When asked about gun laws on Sunday — two days after James Holmes fired shots into an Aurora movie theater in one of the largest mass shootings in American history — Representative Ed Perlmutter backed reinstatement of the assaults weapon ban. The comments, on live national TV, made him one…
At his next court appearance, on Monday, suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is expected to be formally charged by a prosecution team fronted by 18th Judicial District DA Carol Chambers. Our Alan Prendergast is an expert on Chambers thanks to feature articles such as “The Punisher,” so it’s no…
We all process tragedy differently, which may explain the attempts to wring humor from the Aurora theater shooting. But like the James Holmes Facebook tribute pages, or tweets about how the suspected killer is hot, the proliferation of James Holmes memes is mondo-disturbing. Under the theory that this stuff shrivels…
Even before his bizarre first court appearance, reports have circulated about alleged weird behavior by suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes. One of the most vivid has already been debunked, not that it’s stopped the story from zipping around the web. Hard to believe all of them (or perhaps any…
On Wednesday, we shared reports that suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes had sent a CU psychiatrist a notebook of attack plans and drawings. But if it exists, that item is off-limits, and so are all other typically public records related to the grad student under an order signed by…
You know that awful feeling when you approach the spot where you parked your bike only to find that some or all of it has been stolen? Well, a new smartphone app — whose makers are now looking to tap into the Denver market — is designed to give victims…
Last night’s Florence + The Machine show at Red Rocks is one attendees will always remember — because of the music, of course, but also due to the expanded stretch when it stopped. According to our Kelsey Whipple, who reviewed the show, the encore began with lead singer Florence Welch…
The first person identified as a victim of the Aurora theater shooting was Jessica Ghawi, a.k.a. Jessica Redfield, a fledgling sports journalist interning for 104.3 The Fan. On Tuesday, her family created a scholarship fund in her name in the hope that $20,000 could be raised by November 20. But…
Days after accused gunman James Holmes fired shots at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, there have been heated discussions about gun control, along with debates on whether it is an appropriate time to tackle the subject. We gave Denver Mayor Michael Hancock an opportunity to…
Update below: News of the Aurora theater shootings and suspected killer James Holmes continue to dominate headlines not just in Colorado, but nationwide — and Yates Walker is sick of it. Writing for The Daily Caller, Walker, a self-described conservative activist, vents his frustration in a piece entitled “James Holmes…
Instagram isn’t just a creative tool. It’s also a way for people to visually process their feelings — and that’s certainly the case when it comes to the Aurora theater shootings. The images we found vary from mournful to inspirational to livid and back again. Check out the collection below,…
The Associated Press is reporting that the Reverend Jesse Jackson will meet today with the husband of an Aurora theater shooting victim. He’s also said to be planning a press event near the apartment of suspected murderer James Holmes following a nationwide series of gun-violence gatherings over the weekend…
Colorado dealers turned in 40 percent more background check requests for gun purchasers in the four days after the Aurora theater shootings than they did the previous weekend, a spike in gun sales similar to previous runs after other mass killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School attack, according to…
The Aurora theater shootings have generated plenty of sympathy online — but also some twisted responses on the fringes. Now, in the tradition of Facebook tribute pages to James Holmes, the man accused of murdering twelve people and injuring dozens more at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises,…
