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James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is an American convicted on 24 counts of murder and 140 counts of attempted murder for the 2012 Aurora shooting that killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012. He had no known criminal record prior to the shooting.〔 Holmes booby-trapped his apartment with explosives before the shooting, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad. Holmes was arrested shortly after the shooting and jailed without bail awaiting trial. Following this, he was hospitalized after attempting suicide several times while in jail. Holmes entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which was accepted. His trial began on April 27, 2015,〔 〕 and on August 24, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.〔〔 ==Personal life== James Eagan Holmes was born on December 13, 1987, in San Diego, California.〔 His father is a mathematician and scientist〔 with degrees from Stanford University, UCLA and UC Berkeley and his mother is a registered nurse.〔 He has one sister. Holmes was raised in Oak Hills, a community near Castroville, California, where he attended elementary school. At twelve years old, Holmes moved back to San Diego. There, he lived in the Rancho Peñasquitos neighborhood, where he reportedly began to decline socially. He went to Westview High School and graduated in 2006.〔〔〔〔 Holmes played soccer and ran cross-country in high school.〔 He attended Penasquitos Lutheran Church with his family, according to the church's pastor.〔〔 According to Holmes' lawyer, Daniel King, Holmes began to suffer from mental health issues in middle school and attempted suicide at age 11. According to Holmes, during his childhood, he was frightened of what he called "Nail Ghosts" that would hammer on the walls at night. He would also see shadows and "flickers" at the corners of his eyes, which would fight each other with firearms and other weapons. Holmes saw Margaret Roth once before she sent him to psychiatrist Lynne Fenton. Holmes was depressed and "obsessed with killing for over a decade".〔 In Aurora, Holmes lived on Paris Street in a one-bedroom apartment, in a building with other students involved in health studies.〔 In a rental application for an apartment, he described himself as "quiet and easygoing". He left some digital footprints, like a university email address, an old Myspace photo,〔 a dating profile on Match.com,〔 and a profile on Adult FriendFinder, as well as a résumé at the employment website Monster.com. According to a few sources, Holmes allegedly hired prostitutes and left reviews of them on an online message board. In October 2011, Holmes began dating a fellow student in his biology class. Their relationship lasted for about two months and ended when she felt distant from him following an encounter between Holmes and another man who talked to her during a date on Saint Patrick's Day. According to her, Holmes often made flat jokes that made other people feel uncomfortable and expressed his desire to kill people. She tried to recommend getting professional help despite not taking his claims seriously. They resumed their relationship in early January 2012, but it ended again in February. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Holmes (mass murderer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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