Colorado shoot-out accused must stand trial, rules judge
12 Jan 2013 6:42 AM IST
A US judge ordered that alleged cinema gunman James Holmes stand trial over a massacre that killed 12 people in Colorado last July, court documents showed.
Judge William Sylvester found that prosecutors had established there was ‘probable cause’ to believe the defendant committed the crimes, and ordered Holmes to be arraigned in court on Friday. ‘The court orders that Defendant shall be bound over for trial on all counts,’ he wrote in a 61-page ruling posted online, listing all 166 charges against the 25-year-old.
Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring at least 58 during the July 20 shooting at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie in a theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Witnesses said Holmes threw smoke bomb-type devices before opening fire randomly with weapons including an AR-15 military-style rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a .40-caliber pistol.
Over three days earlier this week, prosecutors called witnesses who gave harrowing accounts of the slaughter, and played 911 emergency calls in which the chaos and loud gunshot booms could be clearly heard.
Judge William Sylvester found that prosecutors had established there was ‘probable cause’ to believe the defendant committed the crimes, and ordered Holmes to be arraigned in court on Friday. ‘The court orders that Defendant shall be bound over for trial on all counts,’ he wrote in a 61-page ruling posted online, listing all 166 charges against the 25-year-old.
Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring at least 58 during the July 20 shooting at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie in a theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Witnesses said Holmes threw smoke bomb-type devices before opening fire randomly with weapons including an AR-15 military-style rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a .40-caliber pistol.
Over three days earlier this week, prosecutors called witnesses who gave harrowing accounts of the slaughter, and played 911 emergency calls in which the chaos and loud gunshot booms could be clearly heard.
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