Aurora, Colorado: Most threats have been eliminated from James Holmes’ apartment and families should be allowed back into their apartments by Sunday, police said.
Earlier, security officials started removing trip wires and explosive devices “set up to kill” inside the booby-trapped apartment.
Federal authorities detonated one small explosive and disarmed another inside the apartment with a device that emits a shock wave and water, a law enforcement official said.
The Associated Press reported that the official declined to be named, citing the ongoing investigation into the shooting rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 58.
Holmes’ apartment appears to have three types of explosives—jars filled with accelerants, chemicals that would explode when mixed together and more than 30 “improvised grenades,” the official said.
Holmes, 24, was arrested early Friday outside the Aurora theatre after witnesses say he unleashed gunfire and gas canisters on a crowd of moviegoers watching the midnight showing of the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.”
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