Colorado Shooting Suspect Charged with 24 Murder Counts
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James Holmes, the suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater this month, was charged with 24 counts of first-degree murder, a capital crime, and 116 counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Prosecutors from the office of Carol Chambers, the district attorney for Arapahoe County, Colorado, presented the charges today at a 44-minute hearing in state court in Centennial, a Denver suburb. Twelve people died and at least 58 were injured during the attack July 20 during a midnight showing of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises.”