article_snippet.sent: James Holmes is accused of opening fire on the crowd, killing 12 people and injuring or maiming 70 others in Aurora, a suburb of Denver.
article_snippet.sent: Authorities said James Holmes wore body armor and carried several guns, including an AR-15 rifle, with lots of ammo.
article_snippet.sent: James Holmes says James Holmes was insane at the time of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history, and that is James Holmes legal defense and court plea: not guilty by reason of insanity.
article_snippet.sent: James Holmes admits to the deadliest shootings in U.S. history but says James Holmes was suffering "a psychotic episode" at the time,  according to court papers filed in July 2013 by the state public defenders, Daniel King and Tamara A. Brady.
article_snippet.sent: Evidence "revealed thus far in the case supports the defense's position that James Holmes suffers from a severe mental illness and was in the throes of a psychotic episode when James Holmes committed the acts that resulted in the tragic loss of life and injuries sustained by moviegoers on July 20, 2012," the public defenders wrote.
article_snippet.sent: In March 2012, Holmes told a classmate Holmes wanted to kill people, and that Holmes would do so "when Holmes life was over," court documents said.
article_snippet.sent: Holmes began to fantasize about killing "a lot of people" in early June, nearly six weeks before the shootings, Denver reported, citing unidentified sources familiar with the investigation.
article_snippet.sent: In the months before the shooting, Holmes bought four weapons and more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said.
article_snippet.sent: Court documents have also revealed that investigators have obtained text messages that Holmes exchanged with someone before the shooting.
article_snippet.sent: According to The New York Times, Holmes sent a text message to a fellow graduate student, a woman, about two weeks before the shooting.
highlights_snippet.sent: James Holmes faces 165 counts in the movie theater massacre that killed 12 people .