Holmes allegedly considered other locations for a mass shooting, such as an airport, but ruled it out because an airport would have too much security. Authorities identified the shooting suspect Friday night as 18-year-old student Karl Pierson. The disclosure was made at a court hearing in Centennial where news media organizations were asking a judge to unseal court documents in the case.On September 19, the prosecution filed a motion to add 10 new charges against Holmes and asked to amend 17 others. Holmes saw social worker Margaret Roth once before she sent him to psychiatrist Lynne Fenton.Despite these issues, Holmes graduated from high school in 2006 and completed a bachelor's degree at In Aurora, Holmes lived on Paris Street in a one-bedroom apartment, in a building with other students involved in health studies at the University of Colorado.In October 2011, Holmes began dating a fellow student in his biology class.Holmes wrote of his experience at the Salk Institute in a college application essay: "I had little experience in computer programming and the work was challenging to say the least. The colors were selected through a vote by students a… The other device was rendered harmless, the sheriff said. At a news conference, he urged anyone who needed help to call a counseling service and gave out a phone number.Tracy Monroe, who had step-siblings who attended Columbine, was standing outside Arapahoe High on Friday looking at her phone, reading text messages from her 15-year-old daughter inside.Monroe said she got the first text from her daughter, sophomore Jade Stanton, at 12:41 p.m. A month before the tragedy, Dr. Lynne Fenton told the campus police that he had also made homicidal statements.According to Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler, Holmes chose the Century 16 theater for his attack because he liked movie theaters and that specific theater had doors that he could lock in order to increase the number of casualties, as well as being in an area where police response would take longer.
Holmes chose not to testify.On July 10, the defense showed two videos of Holmes' behavior in his jail cell. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapterWe made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!Part of HuffPost Crime. A student was left in critical condition after a shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo. on Friday. "A few minutes later, Jade texted "shots were fired in our school." "If you had suggested to anybody behind me or in this room that within 20 years in 20 miles we would have dealt with Columbine, the Aurora theater, Arapahoe High School, the shooting of Zack Parrish and four other deputies, we'd have thought you mad, and yet here we are again," District Attorney George Brauchler said at a news conference Wednesday. "On June 25, less than a month before the shooting, Holmes emailed an application to join a gun club in On July 19, just hours before the shooting started, Holmes mailed a notebook to his psychiatrist. (Because he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, his caregivers were allowed to testify at his trial.) The trial was delayed to December 8 upon a defense request for a continuance to further evaluate Holmes' mental condition.Jury selection eventually started on January 20, 2015, after a request by Holmes' lawyers for yet another continuance was denied.The trial began on April 27 with opening arguments by the prosecution explaining that Holmes intentionally went to the movie theater that evening with the deliberate intent to kill as many people as possible in a mass shooting spree. He also wrote his reasoning that an attack on an airport would be confused as an act of terrorism, saying, "Terrorism isn't the message. I was scared. The school's first principal was Gerald Difford. "His mother, Shelly Powers, said she first got word of the shooting in the middle of a conference call at work. One of the jurors had begun discussions about sensitive details of the case with the other two jurors outside of the court on at least two occasions.On June 19, the prosecution called as their last witness Ashley Moser, the mother of slain victim Veronica Moser-Sullivan. No students were injured in the evacuation, though three suffered what he would call "anxiety attacks. When that teacher found out the armed student was asking for him, he left the school immediately. The judge ordered for some of the slides to be changed or removed, explaining that they misstated or exaggerated the evidence.On July 16, after deliberating for over twelve hours, the jurors found Holmes guilty on all twenty-four counts of first-degree murder, 140 counts of attempted first-degree murder, one count of possessing explosives, and a sentence enhancement of a crime of violence.On July 27, Holmes' sister testified that her brother became withdrawn from the family after they moved from On August 7, Holmes was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after jurors failed to unanimously agree on a death sentence.