neighbors said apparently while the shooter was at the theater there was music in his apartment playing over and over again, the same song playing on repeat. we learned from the university of colorado that he recently dropped out of the medical school there. again he was studying neuroscience to get his ph.d in neuroscience. he got his undergrad degree in neuroscience. neighbors in san diego where he grew up said he seemed like a nice kid. don t they always, alisyn? alisyn: we often hear that. details about the application and music playing are chilling details. you heard the awful description of the shooting from the police chief in aurora, colorado. when we come back we ll talk to a woman who was sitting next to one of the people who was shot. that is just in three minutes. the suspect was dressed all in black. he was wearing a ballistic helmet. a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and a groin
leeanne gregg there from the mall in colorado. one of the things we also found out moments ago from the news conference from the police chief, just how well planned this attack seemed to be. we heard a lot about what he was wearing during the attack. full body armor. throat protector, groin protector. he was in all black wearing a ballistic helmet as well. 24-year-old james holmes born on december 13, 1987. police say that holmes also booby-trapped his apartment as well. that apartment in a complex four miles from the theater where the shooting spree took place. aurora, colorado s police chief talked about what s inside.
black. he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and a groin protector and a gas mask and black tactical gloves. he clearly wanted to survive. he clearly wanted to feel and look military in doing this. what does that tell you? well, you know, normally mass murderers end up dead at the end of the day. they don t care. they re fed one life. they want their name in the headlights and ah-hha, ha, i ha done it. and in norway when he mowed down children on the island. he s been in court bragging. put out the manifesto. i wouldn t be surprised if this guy read it. there is a new breed that wants to commit the crime and get to enjoy, you know, the benefits of stull being alive. pat, i m curious what you are saying about the norway shooter and the potential commonality is
handguns. he says 71 people were shot in this horrible bloodbath. 12 of them were killed. 59 people injured. he says he is confident that this was a lone gunman. they are still investigating but at the moment all signs point to him acting alone. he descrid what the gunman was wearing and it was pretty eerie. he said that he had a ballistic helmet. he was dressed all in black. he had tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings. throat protector, groin protector, gas mask and black tactical gloves. we want to bring in congressman peter king. he has been listening alongwith us. chairman of the homeland security committee. congressman king, what stood out to you from that news conference? several things. one, chief oates certainly is on top of this and he and the aurora policeepartment seem to be doing an outstanding job. it is important to see the cooperation with with the fbi and the atf the while chief oates says he is fairly confident that this was a lone gunman, still the
it happens all too often and the names have become so familiar. jonesboro, arkansas, virginia tech, columbine, and now aurora, colorado. it happened not far from columbine high school where a sold out crowd had gathered in theater nine for the midnight opening of the batman movie the dark knight rises. a man named james holmes walked through a door with a bulletproof vest, a gas mask, a throat protector, a groin protector and black gloves. police say he was also carrying three weapons. a rifle, shotgun and a handgun. witnesses say holmes calmly set off some kind of device and began firing randomly and terrified moviegoers. cell phone images captured the