The 7/20 Memorial Foundation is holding a series of events to mark 10 years since 12 people were killed and 70 more were injured in a shooting at the Century 16 theater in Aurora on July 20, 2012.
The 2012 shooting in Aurora prompted Caren and Tom Teves to launch the No Notoriety to bring more attention to victims like their son Alex and less to killers.
The 7/20 Memorial Foundation is holding a series of events to mark 10 years since 12 people were killed and 70 more were injured in a shooting at the Century 16 theater in Aurora on July 20, 2012.
makes him eligible for the death penalty. now the trail is in its second face, th that gives holmes attorneys a chance to present mitigating factors to possibly spare his life. joining me from pueblo, colorado, is tom teves, the father of alex teves, who was just 24 years old when he was shot and killed on that july day in 2012. to tell you about alex, the way his father has described him is simply good. good to the core. thank you for being with me, sir, i appreciate it. hi, poppy. i m struggling a little bit to hear you. okay, can you hear me now can you hear me all right? barely. why don t you tell us first of all in this trial of james holmes at this point in time, as the penalty phase is under way what should happen to the shooter? quite honestly, at this
when he was in college he was a huge wildcats fan because he went to the u of a but he would miss football games which were huge to him to mentor kids, because he mentored kids in the barrio. he was trying to help kids. he was a terrific kid. you d be hard pressed to find anybody who would say a bad word about alex. even these people we talked to the other day, they didn t know him and they thought he was a terrific kid because he was fooling around and having fun in the hallway. in the aisleway of the movie. that s how he was. he loved people. he liked to bring people together and it s funny because i know if alex had that shooter when he was younger, alex could have helped him. if only there were more people like alex out there. thank you very much, tom. unfortunately, he s not out