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Hours before, James Holmes, who lived in Everhart’s building, walked into a crowded movie theater in Aurora and opened fire during a perfor- mance of The Dark Night Rises . Holmes killed 12 people and injured 58 others by the time his guns fell silent. Rigged Apartment Police captured Holmes moments after the shoot- ing, finding him in the back of the theater. Then they went to Paris Street and the apartment build- ing where Holmes lived. Holmes had rigged his apartment with a sophisticated explosive system designed to blow the building to pieces. This was a job for the bomb squad. Among the devices was a boom-box radio that Holmes had programmed to play music just after midnight. The music, Holmes hoped, would wake his neighbors and force someone to bang or rattle the door to get him to turn the volume down. The shaking door would then pull on a fish- ing line attached to a thermos of glycerin that was

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