Investigative Journalism

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — James Holmes had July 20, 2012 circled on the calendar hanging from a wall in his apartment. He drew an infinity sign around the date. Perhaps it meant he could never turn back. Perhaps it meant after the act, he would only infinitely move forward in a...

Listen as Sandy Phillips, mother of shooting victim Jessica Ghawi, talks about fighting for tighter gun restrictions, honoring victims of mass shootings and coping with the loss of her daughter, a talented young journalist. https://cunewscorps.com/1922/aurora-theater-trial/interview-sandy-phillips/

Kaitlyn Fonzi lived an apartment below James Holmes. At around midnight going into July 20, 2012, she was rudely awakened by a blast of techno music, so she went upstairs to complain. The door was ajar and she had no way of knowing she was walking into a trap. She...

Listen as Sandy Phillips, mother of shooting victim Jessica Ghawi, talks about fighting for tighter gun restrictions, honoring victims of mass shootings and coping with the loss of her daughter, a talented young journalist. https://vimeo.com/127436071

https://cunewscorps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IMG_2452.mov A police robot with four cameras aired these first pictures from James Holmes' apartment. Police took the videos the morning of Friday, July 20, 2012. Police said that the glass jar on the chair was a homemade napalm bomb. The green bottles surrounding the chair contained gasoline. The danger...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Kaitlyn Fonzi was not at the Century 16 in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012, when a masked assailant opened fired on a crowded theater. She was at home, sleeping in the apartment directly below the gunman’s residence at 1690 Paris St. Fonzi awoke to techno music...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — In an effort to demonstrate the forethought that went into the murderous rampage at Aurora’s Century 16 theater in July 2012, the prosecution in the theater shooting trial Thursday steered the courtroom away from personal testimony, at least in the morning session, and called FBI agents to...

A court reporter disappeared under a mountain of James Holmes’s “toys” sealed in plastic. Later, the jury passed the items around. They included a helmet, guns, handcuffs, gun magazines, knives, a taser. How did he pay for all of it? Investigators said much of it was bought online with the...

James Holmes’ second interview with police happened with no attorney present at 3:45 p.m. July 20, 2012. It lasted 38 minutes. News organizations requested the the interview transcript. It’s all about the bombs. Read full transcript

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Just because a person is smart doesn’t mean he isn’t mentally ill. Judge Carlos Samour, Jr. made this point clear Wednesday, Day 7 of the Aurora theater shooting trial. All morning, prosecutors tried to prove defendant James Holmes’ intellect as a means of establishing his sanity on...