James Holmes (AFP/Getty Images)
DEVIL’S LAIR: Police break into “Dark Knight” shooter James Holmes’ booby-trapped apartment July 20. (EPA)
DEVIL’S LAIR: Police break into “Dark Knight” shooter James Holmes’ (right) booby-trapped apartment July 20. (
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Chilling 911 calls that captured the sound of bullets flying — and a young teen weeping over the body of her dead 6-year-old cousin — were replayed at a pretrial hearing in the “Dark Knight’’ massacre yesterday.
Panicked moviegoer Kevin Quinonez was the first to call 911 that night, shouting, “There’s some guy . . . after us!’’ amid the gunfire.
“You can hear at least 30 shots in the background,’’ testified Aurora, Colo., Police Detective Randy Hansen of the 27-second call from Quinonez, who survived.
The second wrenching call came from a sobbing 13-year-old relative of both Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6, who died in the bloodbath, and the dead girl’s mom, who was left paralyzed.
“My two cousins, they’re sitting on the floor . . . one of them” is not breathing, the stricken teen said.
As the operator tried to give her instructions on CPR, the child replied, “I can’t hear . . . I’m so sorry.’’
A judge has been holding hearings, as required, to determine whether there is enough evidence to bring James Holmes, now 25, to trial.
FBI and ATF agents revealed the lengths to which Holmes went to allegedly set a massive booby trap for police back at his apartment.
His sick plan included three jars of homemade napalm and the chemical thermite, which burns so intensely that water can’t put it out.
He put a boom box in a white trash bag outside a Dumpster and rigged it to play 40 minutes of white noise and then blast music, so someone would come over. Holmes wanted a would-be victim to see the remote-control car he placed atop it and start jiggling its controls, which would trigger the explosives, officials said. A man did find the boombox but didn’t trigger the bomb.
It also was revealed that Holmes had actually intended to go into the theater next to the one he entered.
Additional reporting by Kate Sheehy