A jury on Thursday afternoon found James Holmes guilty of all 165 charges against him related to a July 2012 attack at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. Holmes, 27, was found guilty of first degree murder, including with "extreme indifference," attempted murder and explosives offenses.
The jury began deliberating Wednesday morning and the decision was reached in just 13 hours, a short deliberation for a case that had 10 weeks of testimony.
Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 others after entering a showing of The Dark Knight Rises and shooting into the crowd. He was arrested outside of the theater. It took the judge an hour to read the 165 guilty verdicts, much longer than the minutes it took for Holmes, armed with three guns, to spray the theater with bullets.
Can't say as this surprised me much. Holmes may have been schizophrenic but that is not enough to explain systematically killing twelve people and wounding seventy others.
Of course it does not exactly escape me that on the very day that this dark chapter in gun violence in America comes to a close a brand new chapter opens up in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Just imagine how nice it would be to go an entire year without reading about a mass shooting in our country.
Perhaps somebody in Britain, or Australia, or Sweden, or just about anywhere else in the civilized world could tell us what that's like.
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