Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes jailed in solitary: ‘All the inmates were talking about killing him’

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Movie massacre suspect James Holmes remained unapologetic and irrational Saturday in a Colorado jail where his life was at risk from inmates bent on revenge.

Holmes, held under suicide watch in solitary confinement, remained in his murderous “Joker” persona after arriving at the Arapahoe Detention Center, a jailhouse worker told the Daily News.

“Let’s just say he hasn’t shown any remorse,” the employee said. “He thinks he’s acting in a movie.”

The man accused in the midnight theater massacre was still acting bizarrely a day after his rampage at a screening of “The Dark Night Rises” — the last film in the Batman trilogy.

“He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,” one released inmate told The News outside the jail. “He’s spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.”

Two other just-released inmates said the concerns of jail officials over Holmes’ survival were well-founded.

On the suspect’s first night in jail, other prisoners serenaded him with a chant of “kid killer” — a reference to the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old girl.

“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.”

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 injured in the 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.”

The deranged suspected killer, a former honors student and Ph.D. candidate, said nothing and walked deliberately to his cell with six officers. He was offered a breakfast of grits and sausage, and a ham sandwich for lunch. If Holmes was sent into the general jail population, “he won’t live to see Monday’s court appearance,” Danilov said.

The reclusive killer was expected to make his first court appearance early Monday, offering the nation its first live look at the face of madness.

If found mentally competent and convicted in the murder spree, Holmes could land on Colorado’s Death Row.


Late Saturday, reports emerged that police were investigating a second "person of interest" in the case. Citing sources, KMGH-TV in Denver said cops had questioned a man Holmes was acquainted with at the Anshutz Hospital doctoral program from which he withdrew several months ago.

The man was located after police traced a threatening message demanding Holmes’ release to his address. Police said it was unclear, however, if this man sent the message or it was just routed through his address.

One of the dozen people slain in the blizzard of bullets was former Verona, N.J., resident Alex Teves.

The 24-year-old physical therapist was preparing to start graduate school this September, said his aunt, Barbara Slivinske.

“He was a wonderful person,” she told the News. “He didn’t have a mean bone in his body. He was loved by everyone. He was a lot of fun, he had a great sense of humor.”
Also killed was Gorden Cowden, 51, an Aurora-based real estate appraiser and father of four.

“He was a man who loved God, loved his country, loved the outdoors but most of all loved his family,” his ex-wife said.

AURORA SHOOTING VICTIMS: HEROISM AND HEARTBREAK AS LAST MOMENTS REVEALED

Comic book fan A.J. Boik, an Aurora resident and recent high school graduate, was at the movie with his girlfriend when the theater filled with smoke and flying bullets.

He was killed; she escaped.

“It’s easy to say you have a wonderful kid, but this kid was just so sweet,” said his uncle, David Hoover. “This has truly broken all of our hearts.”


The other slain victims ran the gamut from a man celebrating his 27th birthday to the 6-year-old, from a U.S. Navy sailor to an aspiring sportscaster.

“What a miracle it wasn’t worse,” said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. Seven of the victims remained in critical condition Saturday at Colorado hospitals.

Holmes received a large volume of ammo and other deliveries at home and work in recent months — an indication of planning and premeditation, Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said.

Cops emptied the blood-spattered theater of all personal effects, including shoes, clothing and purses abandoned in the mad scramble for life.

Survivors and the victims’ families can start collecting the items Monday, said Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates.

The entrance to the movie theater parking lot became an impromptu memorial to the victims, with 12 candles flickering alongside endless piles of flowers and bouquets. Others commemorated the good fortune that spared their names from the litany of the lost.

High school football star Zackary Golditch, 17, committed last month to Colorado State. The 6-foot-5, 265-pound offensive tackle was recovering Saturday from a gunshot that tore through a wall and into his neck as he sat in an adjoining theater.

It ricocheted off the side of his skull and came back out of his neck in two parts,” said his uncle Benjamin Phillips.

So many victims poured into The Medical Center of Aurora that certified nurse midwife Tanya Tanner stepped forward to treat the wounded.

“I’m a nurse. That’s what I do,” Tanner said.

The White House announced Saturday that President Obama would travel to Aurora on Sunday to visit with the victims of the shooting.

...WHY are they concerned about James Holmes' survival? This monster gunned down 12 people and injured 59 others. Who the fuck CARES whether he lives or dies? Put him back in general population where he belongs. True, he would invariably get fucked up by the inmates, and it's highly most likely the guards would be landing a few blows on him as well, and it's highly unlikely he would survive the hour in GenPop, but after all the horrible things he did to all those innocent people, he kinda deserves it.

Colorado shooting: Sports blogger killed

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A sports blogger and aspiring sportscaster — who survived a shooting at a Toronto shopping mall just last month — was among those killed in the mass murder early Friday at a “Dark Knight Rises” screening in Aurora, Colo., prompting grief and outrage from her colleagues and other members of the media.

Jessica Ghawi — who was in her early 20s, and also went by Jessica Redfield — had recently moved from San Antonio to Denver, according to KSAT, and was interning at 104.3 The Fan. She also blogged about the National Hockey League for Busted Coverage and on her own WordPress site, the last entry of which describes being in a shopping mall in downtown Toronto last month “just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court.”

“I can’t get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away,” she wrote on June 5, three days after one man was killed and several others injured in a gang-related shooting at the Eaton Centre mall. “I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm‘s way. It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.”

Ghawi — whose Twitter bio reads, “You can find me in the TV studio, NHL arena/ locker room, on a plane, or writing. Southern. Sarcastic. Sass.Class.Crass. Grammar snob” — was tweeting just moments before her death. In her final tweet — to Jesse Spector, a hockey writer for Sporting News — she wrote, “MOVIE DOESN’T START FOR 20 MINUTES.”

Spector wrote in a post Friday morning that although he had met Ghawi only twice in person and exchanged a few emails, he considered her a friend, which reflects the “power of her personality.”

“Jessica Redfield was going to be a sportscaster, and she was going to be a good one,” he wrote on Sporting News’s website. “She was sharp, funny, enthusiastic and had the kind of passion for sports and journalism that makes people succeed.”

Ghawi’s brother, Jordan Ghawi, wrote Friday morning on his blog that he was en route to Colorado, and that early Friday morning he “received an hysterical, and almost unintelligible, phone call from my mother stating that my sister, Jessica Ghawi, had been shot while attending the midnight showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in Denver, CO.”

He added that Brent Lowak, a mutual friend who was in the theater with her at the time, told him “that he took two rounds and that my sister took one round followed by an additional round which appeared to strike her in the head.”

Jordan Ghawi — whose Twitter bio reads “Student, Firefighter, Paramedic, Amateur Securities Trader, Adventurer, & Humanist with a penchant for knowledge” — updated his blog later Friday to say he had visited Lowak in the hospital and was told what happened.

 As shots rang out, Ghawi wrote, “Jessica advised multiple times for someone to call 911, which Brent immediately attempted to do. Brent then heard Jessica scream and noticed that she was struck by a round in the leg. Brent, began holding pressure on the wound and attempted to calm Jessica. It was at this time that Brent took a round to his lower extremities. While still administering first aid, Brent noticed that Jessica was no longer screaming. He advised that he looked over to Jessica and saw what appeared to be an entry wound to her head. He further stated that Jessica presented with agonal respirations.”

Denver radio sportscaster Peter Burns told CNN that Ghawi, who had interned for KVET 98.1 while living in San Antonio, moved to Denver about a year ago to pursue a career in sports journalism and “wanted to be involved in everything.”

“She was just such a vibrant young girl,” he said. “She just wanted a career in sports journalism. So she started saving up money and kind of begging her family, ‘Allow me to move to Denver and chase my dream.’”

Natalie Tejeda, a traffic reporter for KENS in San Antonio and a friend of Ghawi’s, told CNN she “had a wonderful smile and infectious laugh” and that she “loved hockey and had an aspiration to be a sportscaster.”

“I have no doubt that she was just going to be a phenomenal person, whether a sportscaster, a wife, a sister, you know, a daughter,” Tejeda said. “She did everything wonderfully, and this world is going to be a much sadder place without her.”

Jessica Ghawi’s death reverberated on Twitter on Friday.

“Devastated,” Burns tweeted. “Lost a very close friend in the shooting last night. @JessicaRedfield came to Denver to pursue sports career. I’m shaking.” His grief gave way to anger and confusion.

Midnight Movie Massacre: Survivor of June mall shooting killed in Colorado theater

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An aspiring sports reporter who escaped a deadly shooting in a Toronto mall last month was among the 12 killed in the massacre at a Denver-area movie theater where "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was playing early Friday.

KDVR reports that Jessica Ghawi, who interned in the FOX 31 Denver sports department, tweeted early Friday morning from the movie theater just before the shooting occurred about 20 minutes in to the midnight showing of “The Dark Night Rises” in Aurora.

Ghawi, who went by the name Jessica Redfield in her on-air role, narrowly escaped a June 2 shooting at a Toronto shopping mall that left one person dead and four others injured. Ghawi wrote a now-chilling post on her blog about how she left that scene just moments before that shooting took place.

"This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away"

- Jessica Ghawi, after surviving a mall shooting in June

“This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away,” she wrote. “I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm’s way. It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.”

Zubin Mehenti, a former FOX31 Denver sports anchor who mentored Ghawi during her internship at the station, said he remembers Ghawi for her great personality.

“She loved the NHL, that’s what always stuck out,” Mehenti said. “She was an active blogger and wanted to be a host with an NHL team.

“She was pretty enterprising, and one of the few interns we had who came from out of state. Being an NHL broadcaster was her dream.”

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12 killed, 59 wounded in Colo. theater shooting, cocksucker who did it smirks smugly in mugshot

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