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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 06:36 AM Jul 2012

Official: Trap in Colorado suspect's home had 30 homemade grenades, gasoline

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/24/justice/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html

Aurora, Colorado (CNN) -- The suspect in last week's deadly shooting rampage at a crowded Colorado movie theater boobytrapped his apartment with more than 30 homemade grenades and 10 gallons of gasoline, a law enforcement official who viewed video from inside the apartment told CNN Monday night.

The sophisticated set up at the sparsely furnished Aurora home of James E. Holmes was meant to harm, or possibly kill, anyone who entered -- and tested the skills of bomb squad members charged with clearing it.

"Imagine that fireball ... you would have an explosion that would knock down the wall of (nearby) apartments," the official said. "That flame would have consumed the entire third floor (of the apartment complex)."

"By the time a fire truck would have arrived, they would have arrived to a building that would have been completely consumed in flames."

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I have no words.
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Official: Trap in Colorado suspect's home had 30 homemade grenades, gasoline (Original Post) steve2470 Jul 2012 OP
I have the words Reasonable_Argument Jul 2012 #1
I understand your words completely nt steve2470 Jul 2012 #3
cough... Yeah Its Spin Jul 2012 #2
That would be very heavy. postulater Jul 2012 #4
Hell, my 20 gauge is heavy enough even WITHOUT a clip. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #7
I read that he had 30 days to leave the apartment after leaving malaise Jul 2012 #5
The guy's a fucking asshole, but he wasn't stupid. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #6
 
1. I have the words
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 06:39 AM
Jul 2012

I hope he rots in a box till he dies. They should gather family videos and photos of the victims that are played outside his cell every day nonstop to show what the consequences are to the lights he took out of the world so callously.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
5. I read that he had 30 days to leave the apartment after leaving
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:46 AM
Jul 2012

the graduate program.
Apparently if he couldn't live there, no one else was going to live there either.
What a twisted scumbag.

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