
On the edge of a huge parking lot near the cinema in a suburb of Denver, where a mass massacre occurred on Friday night , an impromptu memorial was built. Hundreds of people carry candles, flowers, state flags of the United States and commemorative signs. One of the inscriptions on a wooden cross reads: "We will not forget July 20."
“We were comprehended by sad, very sad days,” says one of the visitors to the memorial, Professor of the University of Denver William Claud. - Shooting at the cinema struck the reputation of my native state. The fact that we all survived does not correspond to the charm of Colorado, the free spirit and friendliness of its inhabitants. According to the professor, on that tragic night, the friends of his daughters were in this cinema, but they were lucky enough to remain unharmed.
In the residential quarter a few kilometers from the crime scene, workers clean the fragments of glasses of broken windows, through which explosives penetrated the apartment of the 24-year-old killer James Holmes, which he carefully mined. As a result, all explosive traps in the apartment were neutralized, evacuated neighbors return to their homes. The head of the police department, Aurora , Dan Outs, says that now the investigation group has focused on collecting evidence against Holmes. One of them, probably, will be the fact that long until July 20, Holmes received postal parcels with ammunition, which he legally ordered on the Internet.
"The case we started should show that the murder was the result of well -thought -out actions of a person with an outstanding intelligence that was deliberately at this," says Dan Outs.
The police arrested James Holmes immediately after he, armed with a semi -automatic rifle, shotgun and gun, opened a hurricane fire on the audience in a crowded cinema in the premiere of the film "Dark Knight: The Renaissance of the Legend". Holmes is a former graduate student of the University of Colorado. On July 23, the first hearings in the court in this case were scheduled. Now Holmes is contained in a solitary confession.
Colorado Governor John Hikenluper in an interview with NBC’s television company said that residents of the state are trying, but cannot find an answer to why the tragedy occurred:
This is a kind of problem of the human community. Why are we unable to pay attention to such people who, as it turns out, have the deepest deviations?
The motives of the shooter continue to be unknown. The suspect refuses to testify to the investigation. According to Governor Hikenluper, James Holmes has a perverted, delusional worldview, he has a devilish beginning: "In my view, he is almost like a terrorist. He wanted to deprive local people and all Americans to enjoy life."
Barack Obama President on Sunday evening specially flew to the state of Colorado to express comfort and support to those who mourn their relatives and friends who died that terrible night. In private, the president visited the hospital in Denver to meet with those who were wounded and are now in the intensive care unit, as well as with their relatives.
- I admitted to them that words never are enough in such situations. But my main goal as a representative of the whole country was to convey to them, what we think about them at this moment and continue to think daily. The realization that not only the whole of America, but many in the world think about them, maybe give them at least some consolation, ” Barack Obama said on a mass memorial prayer near the building of the municipality of the city of Aurora. Moleben was organized by local civil activists and religious leaders of various faiths.
On July 22, Denver Post has published an unbearably sad story about the youngest victim of the night battle in the cinema. Her name was Veronika Moser, "a living, charming and naive girl," as her aunt told her. In her, her grandfather, who died two months ago, did not aspire in her. Veronica was only six years old, and shortly before her death, she learned to swim.