now to new york city with that room. total murders stands at 12 but the mayor of aurora, colorado, saying some of the gravely injured may not surprise. three young men took bullet for their loved ones. 26-year-old aspiring navy seal. 24-year-old recent graduate of a master psychology program. and 27-year-old target employees mcquinn used their bodies do protect their girlfriends, saving their lives. matt did what a man is supposed to do. protect the ones you love. no matter what the cost. youngest of the victims, six -year-old veronica sullivan, and the oldest, gordon cowden, a true texas jessing the movie with his two age children. and alex sullivan would have celebrated his 27th birthday
suspect james holmes he called and left an odd message on the answering machine. they say he was rambling, he may have been acting but very weird. he contacted them again and sent his application. when he got the application it seemed pretty normal, other than his mother lived in san diego but they flagged it and told all the employees when this man comes in, we want to know more about him. come get me in the back room. he would never come in to officially do that. friday morning when the owner of the gun range woke up, his wife woke up and put two and two together, it was obvious that he knew exactly who he was. he was man that he told his employees to flag and went over very closely before he joined the range which he never did. gregg: adam, we ll check back with you. arthel: we are learning more about the 12 victims gunned down in the movie theater massacre. youngest is a little girl just learning to swim. the old after the father described as a true gentleman. a praye
inside of his apartment that he used to set up and explode and cause a fire, until that s totally clean, they re not going to let people back in. yesterday, there was one explosion in particular, three we heard, one loud one, one in particular that disarmed everything. take a listen. it was that water bomb, basically, in laymen s terms that took out a circuit board in the kitchen. we re told everything was tied to that circuit board. it was an intricate setup. while the setup was intricate, the actual bombs we re told were amateur, in any case it was dangerous inside that apartment complex and took some time for authorities from the fbi, atf and the aurora police department to methodically go through everything and take it to a dump truck drive it to the eastern part of town, set it on fire and blew it up. making sure there is no more threat involved. and they took out pieces evidence one by one, including the tower and nobody got hurt and tried to secure other people to th
police saying it was set up to kill or seriously injury whom ever entered. i spoke with police chief daniel oats earlier about effort to preserve the evidence. that was extremely high priority over the last two days, we wanted the evidence in that, inside that apartment and we ve taken custody of the computer, the potential that we might get evidence out that have computer is, well, it s very important to us, but, every ounce of evidence will just help us hold this person accountable. so, it was a very, very high priority that we cover evidence and i m so grateful that we had the bomb professionals from the feds and our local agencies to help us do that. it was a great relief, and we ve mitigated the hazard and that we would start that evidence and i suspect we ll be sifting through that evidence for months. we ll hear more of that evidence from chief oats later in the hour. as for holmes, the 24-year-old is currently in solitary confinement at a denver area facility and
evidence. we wanted the evidence inside that apartment. we had taken custody of the computer. potential we might get evidence out of that computer is very important. every ounce of evidence will help us hold this person accountable. was very high priority and i m so grateful we had the bomb professionals from the feds and local agencies to help us do that. gregg: ascam live in aurora with the latest. reporter: we are learning new information about the suspect. we got a chance to get upright about ten feet of the building itself. it s the last building people are not allowed back in. authorities are going in and out. they say the investigation completed but at the same time they have cleanup and dangerous materials they say in fact. potentially materials that might contaminate people in the area. they want to get that cleaned up and secure the apartment. glass is still broken out. so until that is done people will not be allowed back into the apartment complex where jame