A shocked Colorado community is searching for answers today as police continue to deal with the booby-trapped apartment of the suspected gunman who opened fire inside of a packed movie theater at a Colorado mall.
James Holmes, 24, is suspected of killing 12 people at the screening of the latest Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado early Friday morning.
According to police sources, Holmes, told the officers arresting him that he was "The Joker," referring to the villain in the second installment of the Batman movie trilogy, "The Dark Knight." He also warned police that he had booby-trapped his apartment, leading officers to evacuate the Aurora apartment building.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said Friday that police, bomb squads and the ATF have found a large number of explosive devices and trip wires at Holmes' apartment and have not yet decided how to proceed without setting off explosions. Some devices appear strapped to boxes of bullets, police said, and what look like mortar rounds.
"The pictures we have from inside the apartment are pretty disturbing considering how elaborate the apartment is booby trapped," police said outside of the apartment complex Friday.
The "flammable and explosive" materials could have blown up Holmes' apartment building and the ones near it, police said.
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Watch Video It's so dangerous, authorities said they are afraid to set foot inside the apartmant and are sending in remote controlled cameras to scan the rooms and they have not gone in yet.
One official told ABC News that there wires everywhere and described Holmes as as like a mad scientist.
Police said there is widespread over copy cats, and the FBI is expected to issue a bulletin warning local authorities that theaters might be targeted. Police in New York City, Washington and other jurisdictions have stepped up their securities.
Holmes is accused of opening fire on moviegoers during a sold-out midnight screening of the new "Batman" movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," at a mall in Aurora, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
Two other people died at the hospital, including 24-year-old aspiring sportscaster Jessica Ghawi. Police said 30 people remained hospitalized with 11 of them in critical condition. Bullets from the shooting spree tore through the theater and into adjoining theaters, where at least one other person was struck and injured.
Authorities have finished the grim task of identifying the 10 victims who were killed inside the theater when Holmes allegedly opened fire during the midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises," and are now going door-to-door to notifiy families.
Among the dead include Micayla Medek, 23, Alex Sullivan, 27, who was attending the movie for his birthday, and Ohio native Matt McQuinn.
The number of casualties makes the incident the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Chief Oates announced Friday that Holmes had purchased four guns at local shops and more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet in the past 60 days.
"All the ammunition he possessed, he possessed legally, all the weapons he possessed, he possessed legally, all the clips he possessed, he possessed legally," an emotional Oates told reporters at a press conference.
The chief declined to say whether the weapons were automatic or semi-automatic, but "he could have gotten off 50 to 60 rounds, even if it was semi-automatic, within one minute," Oates said. Eyewitness Accounts Eyewitness and victim accounts of the mass shooting that took place inside of a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colo., Friday morning continue to paint a picture of panic and horror.
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