Posted on 07/21/2012 2:10:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Remorseless mass-murder suspect James Holmes was locked up alone Saturday over fears that the self-proclaimed Joker would become a target for other inmates.
The man accused in the Colorado movie theater massacre was still behaving erratically on the day after his rampage at a midnight screening of “The Dark Night Rises” — the last film in the Batman trilogy.
“Let’s just say he hasn’t shown any remorse,” a jail employee told the Daily News. “He thinks he’s acting in a movie.”
A released inmate said Holmes’ behavior behind bars was increasingly irrational.
“He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,” the inmate told The News. “He's spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.”
Holmes, 24, was also placed on suicide watch in solitary confinement before eating a jailhouse breakfast of grits and sausage, according to a cafeteria worker.
Two other just-released inmates said the concerns of Arapahoe Detention Center officials over Holmes’ life were well-founded.
“All the inmates were talking about killing him,” Wayne Medley, 24, said as he left the facility. “Everyone was looking for an opportunity. It’s all they could talk about.”
Freed inmate Dima Danilov, 22, said the suspect’s face was covered with a red towel when he arrived at the jail about two hours after 12 people were killed and 58 wounded inside an Aurora, Colo., multiplex.
Holmes — who had dyed his hair red — was also wearing red clothing beneath the black body armor that terrified moviegoers saw when he opened fire early Friday morning, Danilov said.
Jail guards “blacked out his windows with duct tape so no one could see him,” said Danilov. “He was cuffed in the back and had leg shackles. Six officers were walking him.”
The deranged suspected killer, a former honors student and Ph.D. candidate, said nothing and walked slowly to his cell.
Danilov said that if Holmes was released into the general jail population, “he won’t live to see Monday’s court appearance.”
Holmes is due for his first court appearance on Monday morning. He could face the death penalty, if found mentally competent and convicted in the murder spree.
Cops returned Saturday for a second day to Holmes’ suburban Denver apartment, which was rigged with chemical and explosive booby-traps by its jailed tenant before his rampage.
Eleven of the victims shot during the midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” remained in critical condition Saturday at Colorado hospitals.
According to NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the mass killer declared that “he was the Joker, enemy of Batman” after the massacre ended.
Holmes, who came to Colorado from California to continue his education, was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a Remington 870 shotgun and two .40-caliber Glock handguns.
Or Ron White, ‘In my state, instead of trying to repeal the death sentence, we’re building an EXPRESS LANE.’
I like that one too.
The sad part is, since the perp didn’t get taken down, it will probably cost Colorado many millions to take this thru trial and sentencing and multiple appeals.
He will have the rest of his life to find out how
abnormal people can be but it won’t be a very clinical
experience for him.
Red and Black what could it mean?”
Just admired and wanted to copy the color scheme Michelle O used in her dress on inauguration day in 2009.
We need to spend some time looking at photos of anarchists at OWS rallies. Before they’re scrubbed.
If he truly thinks he is in a movie, they should send someone in the talk to him that is in a Batman costume.
Maikn joifu noys! Srsly! Poest on frigdore!
Just a wild guess, but I'd say he is insane.
If the little creep actually came from a Christian home he well might be familiar with this: The ruse David used when he was on the lam because King Saul had a contract out on him - 1st Samuel 21:10 - 15.
1Sa 21:10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa 21:11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1Sa 21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa 21:13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
1Sa 21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
He’s just working on an insanity defense. All he needs is an MD without a moral compass and a liberal judge.
I had grits and sausage this morning. It was wonderful. Way too good for jail food.
That's showing mercy to the convicted. It's also merciful to the public, who doesn't have to feed and house him, or worse, worry about his eventual release when some shrink decides he's "cured" as long as he takes his medication.
I’m not familiar with that symbol. What does it mean?
Sausage in Jail???... no thank you.
Where is his booking photo. Screw the good boy h s pic.
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