Colorado shooting suspect appears in court

July 23, 2012 22:09

James Holmes, the 24-year-old alleged to have gunned down 12 people in a US cinema screening the new Batman movie, made his first appearance in a Colorado court today.

With orange hair, Holmes sat glum-faced, his eyes repeatedly closing and opening in strange fashion, at the proceedings in Centennial, following the massacre on Friday in a movie theater in Aurora. Holmes, wearing a maroon prison jumpsuit, stared blankly as lawyers discussed procedural arrangements with the Arapahoe County judge.

He was later led out after the hearing, which lasted less than 10 minutes. He is accused of shooting dead 12 people and wounding 58 others at a cinema Friday in Aurora, outside Denver, as young moviegoers packed the midnight screening of the latest Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises."

Prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty later this week, although experts note that only one person has been executed in Colorado since 1976, ABC and local media reported.

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