<P> James Eagan Holmes ( born December 13 , 1987 ) is an American prisoner convicted of the murder of 12 people and the attempted murder of 70 others in the 2012 Aurora shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora , Colorado , on July 20 , 2012 . Holmes surrendered outside the theater and informed offices he had booby - trapped his apartment with explosives , which were defused one day later by a bomb squad . </P>
<P> James Eagan Holmes ( born December 13 , 1987 ) is an American prisoner convicted of the murder of 12 people and the attempted murder of 70 others in the 2012 Aurora shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora , Colorado , on July 20 , 2012 . Holmes surrendered outside the theater and informed offices he had booby - trapped his apartment with explosives , which were defused one day later by a bomb squad . </P>
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James Eagan Holmes
James Eagan Holmes