Posted on 07/21/2012 2:10:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Remorseless mass-murder suspect James Holmes was locked up alone Saturday over fears that the self-proclaimed Joker would become a target for other inmates.
The man accused in the Colorado movie theater massacre was still behaving erratically on the day after his rampage at a midnight screening of “The Dark Night Rises” — the last film in the Batman trilogy.
“Let’s just say he hasn’t shown any remorse,” a jail employee told the Daily News. “He thinks he’s acting in a movie.”
A released inmate said Holmes’ behavior behind bars was increasingly irrational.
“He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,” the inmate told The News. “He's spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.”
Holmes, 24, was also placed on suicide watch in solitary confinement before eating a jailhouse breakfast of grits and sausage, according to a cafeteria worker.
Two other just-released inmates said the concerns of Arapahoe Detention Center officials over Holmes’ life were well-founded.
“All the inmates were talking about killing him,” Wayne Medley, 24, said as he left the facility. “Everyone was looking for an opportunity. It’s all they could talk about.”
Freed inmate Dima Danilov, 22, said the suspect’s face was covered with a red towel when he arrived at the jail about two hours after 12 people were killed and 58 wounded inside an Aurora, Colo., multiplex.
Holmes — who had dyed his hair red — was also wearing red clothing beneath the black body armor that terrified moviegoers saw when he opened fire early Friday morning, Danilov said.
Jail guards “blacked out his windows with duct tape so no one could see him,” said Danilov. “He was cuffed in the back and had leg shackles. Six officers were walking him.”
The deranged suspected killer, a former honors student and Ph.D. candidate, said nothing and walked slowly to his cell.
Danilov said that if Holmes was released into the general jail population, “he won’t live to see Monday’s court appearance.”
Holmes is due for his first court appearance on Monday morning. He could face the death penalty, if found mentally competent and convicted in the murder spree.
Cops returned Saturday for a second day to Holmes’ suburban Denver apartment, which was rigged with chemical and explosive booby-traps by its jailed tenant before his rampage.
Eleven of the victims shot during the midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” remained in critical condition Saturday at Colorado hospitals.
According to NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the mass killer declared that “he was the Joker, enemy of Batman” after the massacre ended.
Holmes, who came to Colorado from California to continue his education, was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a Remington 870 shotgun and two .40-caliber Glock handguns.
I never understood the insanity plea. Of course, he’s insane. Nobody in their right mind would do what he did. Hang him anyway.
To paraphrase Dennis Miller: He’s crazy, so put him in a clown suit and then fry him.
He was never in any danger of going into general population.
You got it.
No proof as yet but time will tell.
Eventually he’ll talk, his ego will demand it.
Can we have a bunch of shrinks pick him apart very slowly first?
” Many a Southerner would consider that a gracious last meal prior to execution”
No bacon? Jail is a bitch!
In teh naemz of Ceiling Cat, Happy Cat, and Hovercat, amenz and kthxbai.
"A SUV parked in the home's driveway had a sticker on the back window that said, "TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS," the name of a nonprofit "dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide."
1. Any actual evidence this guy was an OWS idiot?
2. Are you suggesting that the inmates should go around killing OWS idiots?
What is it?
No bacon? Jail is a bitch!
No bacon for your last meal. It's bad for you, you know.
Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
A FReeper noticed the Equality symbol on the car, the blue rectangle with the yellow equal sign.
Hope he gets the Dahlmer welcome wagon and save the taxpayers the cost of feeding the POS, years of public-funded appeals, and the added grief and anguish to families of the victims when the POS is eventually released (for “good behavior”) by some bleeding heart LIEberal judge or parole board.
He probably will and that's a good reason to keep him alive now.
Perhaps when the explosives disposal teams get finished, assuming that they are successful without destroying everything in his apartment, information on how and from whom he got the funds to buy large quantities of firearms, ammunition and other stuff will be found. It might be useful to question him about that. Was he, as the "news" says, acting alone? If not, for whom, why and to what end?
LOL shreeks ovah heer, cuz mah gospill boat iz floted!
I think that prison should have a good, all-American game of baseball this weekend, with Spittin’ Jimmie out there with the rest of the prison population. The guards should make sure there are plenty of bats. Cleats on the shoes, too, we don’t want anyone twisting an ankle while rounding second.
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