who was the guy who shot up the movie theater
James Holmes (mass murderer) James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is an American prisoner convicted of the murder of 12 people and the attempted murder of 70 others in the 2012 Aurora shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012. Holmes surrendered outside the theater and informed offices he had booby-trapped his apartment with explosives, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad.