you know. so sad that she had to have life taken away from her so early. reporter: there are stories of courage, people who lost lives by saving others. jon blunk threw his girlfriend on the floor to shield her. matt mcquinn dove on top of his girlfriend and took the bullet instead. matt did what a man is supposed to do. you protect the ones you love no matter the cost. grad school. a.j. boik out of high school with dreams of life as a art teacher. alex sullivan had big plans. he turned 27 on friday, posting on his facebook going to be the best birthday ever. micayla medek was there too. she worked as a sandwich maker. rebecca wingo, mother of two, spent 11 years in the air force, became fluent in mandarin and was a translator. jesse childress in the air force, a reservist. he died a hero, driving in front of a friend, female service member. just the kind of guy you want
short time that we have on earth and forever an eternity in heaven and let us glorify god and our love for him and let us glorify god and our love for one another and let us glorify god by responding to all violence by peace and to all evil with love. [ applause ] and so now let us bow our heads in prayer. loving and merciful god, we praise you and we adore you for your great mercy. you are truth, goodness, and beauty. you are the source of all that is good and all that is holy and you hate what is evil. you respond to evil, oh lord, with love and your boundless love, your victory over death is our hope for we know that we do not live in a lasting city. we entrust our beloved deceased to your love and mercy. we entrust our community to your comfort and peace. we entrust our fear, our doubt, our uncertainty to your providential love. be present to us tonight, be present to us in the days ahead. help us to love as you love and help us to build a community of peace. we pray are
part of a vigil for those who died and those left still struggling with disbelief after the shooting. abc s brandi hitt in aurora with the latest on the investigation. brandi, what is the latest right now? reporter: good morning, rob, paula. it was just highly emotional evening for the victims and their families here. there was a prayer vigil held last night. and president obama was also here to share a lot of hugs and also tears. reporter: heartbreak and sadness filled the aurora municipal center as thousands gathered to remember the 12 people killed in friday s movie theater massacre. one day, lord, we know that one day we will march into the theater and claim the theater back, father god. it doesn t belong to the terrorist, it belongs to the city of aurora. reporter: president obama spent two hours with the victims families and tried to comfort the community. i confessed to them that words are always inadequate in these kinds of situations. reporter: durin
what he had. we are also obtaining the fullest picture yet of the 12 lives lost. the 6-year-old give who loved her ice cream and the navy sailor seen hiking in the mountains. our team is on the story from colorado to washington covering it all. first, the exclusive look at the video of the alleged gunman. tonight, the first video yet of the alleged gunman, james holmes. hello, i m james. reporter: abc news has video of the suspected shooter recorded six years ago when holmes was 18 at a summer science camp at a college in san diego. he is seen here standing in front of his peers talking about what are called temporal illusions. the science behind changing your past. i have been working with temporal illusion. it allows to you change the past. reporter: he appears to be nervous here. but also appears to be a smart teenager with promise. the speaker introducing him, describing him this way. his goal is to make scientific discoveries. a good start. in personal life, he
clip. police are urgently seeking a motive and may have gotten a critical break in the case. authorities recovered a computer from the suspect s booby trapped apartment and sources tell us more evidence of his batman obsession. abc news has learned police discovered a variety of batman paraphernalia including a poster and mask from the comic book series. many of my source s appear stunned at the suspect s cold-blooded fury. gets you so angry, too, reports out of jail now he is showing absolutely no remorse through awful this. he is still maining his joker persona, spitting at guards. spitting on windows, absolutely no remorse whatsoever, what he has done. even now. and his court appearance, as we said hours away. his attorneys might waive the hearing. if he is transferred from jail to the courthouse, it is going to be in an underground tunnel so he won t be seen. so that video cameras can t capture that. yeah, it s, it s egregious to think there were clues along the way,