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Apartment of James Holmes is booby-trapped
The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | July 20, 2012 | Emine Sinmaz

Posted on 07/20/2012 10:35:16 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin

Police say apartment of lone wolf killer James Holmes, 24, is booby-trapped as his mother says 'you've got the right man'

By EMINE SINMAZ PUBLISHED: 08:18 EST, 20 July 2012 | UPDATED: 10:35 EST, 20 July 2012

Police have evacuated the area surrounding the apartment of the man suspected of shooting dead at least 12 people and wounding 50 others during a late-night screening of the new Batman movie as they reveal his home is booby-trapped.

James Holmes, 24, told officers he had explosives stored at his apartment when he was arrested after opening fire at random at the mall in Aurora, Colorado.

Police said they were forced to evacuate Holmes' apartment block, situated four miles from the scene of the horrific crime in North Aurora, and five surrounding buildings.

Investigation: Police use a video camera to look inside an apartment where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012

Investigation: The Aurora bomb squad robot is deployed to search a suspect's car behind the Century 16 Theatre following a shooting during a Batman movie screening in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates says bomb technicians are determining how to disarm flammable or explosive material in the third-floor apartment. He says police could be there some time.

Oates says pictures from inside the apartment are fairly disturbing and the devices look to be sophisticated.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aurora; aurorashooting; blackblocows; holmes; jamesholmes; jamesholmesapt; occupyblackbloc
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To: scooby321

“He had help”

Sure did, liberalism. Just like Muslim terrorist have Islam.
His messiah is an Obama.


81 posted on 07/21/2012 5:09:51 PM PDT by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Question 1: Isn't 'killing cops' one of OWS Black Bloc's mantras? Question 2: Supposedly, James left his music on REAL loud at his apartment so the cops would show up, barge in and get killed while he rampaged at the theater.. How did the music get turned off or why didn't the cops show up at his booby-trapped apartment before the massacre?

So far, the evidence smacks of 'OWS Black Bloc' ties, definitely not Tea Party.

82 posted on 07/21/2012 5:18:48 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Braak

The FBI’s getting nervous because James apartment didn’t go ‘boom’ like it was supposed to.


83 posted on 07/21/2012 5:22:43 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

“left his music on REAL loud at his apartment”

I wonder what it was


84 posted on 07/21/2012 5:26:31 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

It was techno. I want to know why the cops never came to his door or how the music was stopped if they didn’t. The witness who says someone took a call in the front row of the theater, exited and possibly allowed James into the theater is another interesting angle.


85 posted on 07/21/2012 5:35:55 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

It was a repeating loop. The sound system was reportedly set to a timer. It came on after Holmes had already left, apparently timed to the beginning of the movie and his attack, and it shut off via timer at 1:00AM, before police arrived at the apartment.

A downstairs neighbor, the woman who tried the door and found it open but fortunately did not go in and trigger the explosives, provided the only description that went beyond merely “techno.” She described it as having a lot of very deep bass and reverb. She is a 20 year old student, surname Fonzi.


86 posted on 07/21/2012 5:45:37 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: bigdaddy45

well if you read my comment you would see I retracted it genius


87 posted on 07/21/2012 6:39:08 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Arec Barrwin

No wonder the tea party was blamed for this. OWS may have its fingerprints on this atrocity. OWS is becoming the new Weather Underground.


88 posted on 07/22/2012 1:11:28 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: combat_boots

Techno crap.


89 posted on 07/22/2012 2:50:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yes. We’re being conned while the cover story is created and set in stone.


90 posted on 07/22/2012 6:58:52 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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Police evacuated an entire city block to disarm the guy’s apartment? Did they go in other apartments or houses, too?


91 posted on 07/22/2012 7:01:12 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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