Theater Shooting Jurors See Video Of Booby-Trapped Apartment
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Jurors in the Aurora theater shooting trial are getting their first extended look inside gunman James Holmes' booby-trapped apartment.
Prosecutors played a video Friday showing an array of homemade bombs, a trail of flammable powder on the carpet, a web of fuses and a panel with blinking red lights labeled "Launch Control."
The video was shot by a robot because bomb squad commanders considered the explosives too dangerous to send officers into the apartment. The bombs were eventually defused.
Police have testified the bombs were meant to be a diversion while the theater attack was underway.
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Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 others in the July 2012 attack. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
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