Aurora shooter why

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Most Read. A man serving more than 3, years in jail for the murders of 12 people in a cinema warned prison authorities he could kill again, according to newly released footage. The jury at his subsequent trial dismissed his defence of mental illness, and he escaped the death penalty but was sentenced to 12 life sentences plus 3, years in jail. US prosecutors have now released hours of video showing him talking about the massacre to William Reid, a court-appointed specialist who evaluated his sanity.

Holmes also said he felt uncomfortable being handcuffed when found by police officers, but otherwise had no feelings about his arrest.

The videos were released at the request of attorney Steven Zansberg, who said he was representing a documentary producer whom he declined to identify. Reid said society will likely never have a comprehensive understanding of what led Holmes to commit murder. Reid said he relied on the court records, including his videotaped interviews with Holmes, which were shown to jurors during the trial.

The book includes a handful of previously unknown facts, the most startling of which is that Holmes suggested to Reid in one of their videotaped interviews that he might kill again if given a chance. But Reid told the AP he doubted Holmes was a serious threat to other prisoners. The book also offers a glimpse of the extraordinary steps that state District Judge Carlos Samour — now a Colorado Supreme Court justice — took to prevent pretrial leaks.

Emails involving the case were encrypted, and some documents were delivered to Reid in person, instead of by mail or parcel service. The book knocks down a half-dozen stories that circulated around the case. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist and a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, agreed that Reid did not have a doctor-patient relationship with Holmes. Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but Reid and the other court-appointed psychiatrist, Jeffrey L.

Reid and Metzner both said Holmes was mentally ill at the time of the killings — Metzner diagnosed schizoaffective disorder, a severe form of schizophrenia, and Reid found schizotypal personality, a related but less severe disorder.

But both said that despite his illness, Holmes knew his elaborately planned ambush was illegal and morally wrong, and that he could still form criminal intent, all of which meant he was sane under state law.