Moldova, meredith took notice. when they re here, they re just completely startled. we want today provide a place where they could get that support tlar idea became the sunflower center, a place where kids could have fun and hopefully forget about the war for a couple of hours. but she also want today provide educational services and structure. there were some children s classes going on. but they weren t sitting and creating. they were just entertainment with loud tech know music playing. they needed someone to hold their hand. we walk every single kid up to the classroom. we were trying to be kind and listen to what they need. reporter: in this room, we found more than a dozen children making mother s day cards, and they were anxious to show them to us. hardly a hint of the stress of war on their faces.
Why did he do what he did? nbc s mike taibbi looks into that. reporter: the few people who have contact with james eagan holmes describe him as not just quiet but lived with his shades drawn and revealed little. he kept to himself, didn t like a lot of attention. we never heard anything abnormal until midnight this morning when we heard loud tech know music playing. reporter: in the theater, witnesses say the suspect had no message at all. he didn t say a word. not a word. reporter: but he was dressed in full battle gear. he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and a grown protector and a gas mask and black, tactical gloves. he looks like a deranged individual.
reporter: you know, it s a bizarre and strange account. i spoke with those neighbors. they live right underneath the apartment belonging to james holmes. they told me it was an apartment complex that was usually quiet and there was really no noises that came from the unit above them. these folks are pretty ar particular be late when i spoke to them. they told me that, you know, all of a sudden, at the stroke of midnight, this loud tech know music started to play and then for some reason all of a sudden it just cut off at 1:00 in the morning. they speculate it was perhaps some sort of timed sort of lure, maybe to lure someone to go knock on the door. that s what they speculate. if this has anything to do with the investigation, who knows. but it s certainly an interesting element in all of this. jeremy julolo from kusa, thank you for taking the time. when we come back, we re going to talk to former fbi
That. reporter: the few people who have contact with james eagan holmes describe him as not just quiet but lived with his shades drawn and revealed little. he kept to himself, didn t like a lot of attention. we never heard anything abnormal until midnight this morning when we heard loud tech know music playing. reporter: in the theater, witnesses say the suspect had no message at all. he didn t say a word. not a word. reporter: but he was dressed in full battle gear. he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and a grown protector and a gas mask and black, tactical gloves. he looks like a deranged individual. he had his hair painted red. he said he was the joker. obviously the quote, the enemy of batman . growing up in san diego,
. such an emotional morning here in aurora, colorado, as we re continuing to learn the names of those that were lost and the survivors still question why they were the lucky ones to get out alive. we ll continue to follow this. we ll be live here from aurora, colorado, once again tomorrow morning on cnn sunday morning. thanks for watching. cnn newsroom continues now. all right. thanks so much. great reporting there. of course, the rest of our team still in place there aurora. we ll be checking in with a number of our colleagues there. hello, everyone. so right now let s bring you up to speed on all that s taking place. live images right now. bomb squads in colorado are surrounding that booby trapped apartment belonging to the suspect in that deadly shooting rampage at the movie theater in aurora. a live report from the scene is it just moments away. ground images now as well as they continue to put up tape around that cordoned off area. police are revealing more distur