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James Holmes Massacre
The speculations made regarding the massacre taken place at a movie theatre in Aurora Colorado in 2012, are yet to be in the clear. In a night where the town people were out to enjoy the new release of “The Dark Knight Rises”, a person or a couple, decided to turn it into a deadly and unforgettable night for the moviegoers. The case of James Holmes, the suspect captured within minutes of the horrific event, left the nation with many questions unanswered and relatives of the victims devastated. An undeniable fact is that people believe that the government and the media were not completely transparent about the investigation and the shooting itself. As we can see in the documentary “The James Holmes Conspiracy”, the testimonies of those who witnessed the bloody crime were not supported by the town’s police department. There …show more content…
According to the police audio exposed in the documentary, Holmes did not resist arrest and was instead waiting for police to arrive and apprehend him. Undoubtedly, the suspect’s purpose in this heartless deed was incarceration. But when asked what the motive was during the interview, the chief did not go into details and instead answered “we are not speculating on motive”. Again, no one able to shed some light here. Whatever the motive may be, the suspect was sentenced to life in prison.
Corbin Dates, a shooting witness, mentioned that the suspect he saw had a goatee. A caption in the video stated that the official police report claimed that this was James Holmes. However, Holmes did not have a goatee. Like Dates, Salena Jordan also shared her story. Jordan expressed how surprised she was to have heard the alarm go off as it repeatedly said, “murder in the theatre, murder in the theatre”. These are only a few of the witnesses questioned and it is safe to say that there are probably more people out there who witnessed something but were afraid to
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