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Survivors of Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting still haunted 10 years later

By William Brangham, Frank Carlson, Sam Lane, Sam Weber

Gun violence survivors speak on the National Mall in Washington, U.S.

A mother whose daughter died in a 2012 mass shooting shares message with Uvalde parents

Nearly 10 years after her daughter Jessi was killed in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, Sandy Phillips is visiting yet another mass shooting site. Since her daughter and 11 others were killed in July 2012, Phillips has traveled the country…

By Amna Nawaz, Emily Carpeaux, Sam Lane, Frank Carlson

Colorado attorney general announces broader probe of police

Also Tuesday, McClain's parents sued the Aurora Police Department and medical officials. It accuses police of a longstanding pattern of brutality and racism.

By Colleen Slevin, Patty Nieberg, Associated Press

An aerial photo of police and emergency vehicles parked in a lot adjacent to a warehouse at the scene of a mass shooting involving multiply casualties in Aurora, Illinois, U.S., February 15, 2019. Bev Horne/Daily Herald/via Reuters

Aurora shooter’s permit was revoked but gun wasn’t seized

An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that would have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six others at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant from buying the gun.

By Don Babwin, Julie Watson, Associated Press

The exterior of the Henry Pratt valve assembly plant -- where police say Gary Martin shot fellow employees and wounded police officers -- is pictured in Aurora, Illinois February 15, 2019. Picture taken February 15, 2019. Ptoho by Robert Chiarito/Reuters

Aurora shooting update: Plant manager, intern among 5 killed by colleague losing job

Police on Saturday identified five male employees of Henry Pratt Co. who were found dead Friday and the gunman, who was killed in a shootout with police after a 90-minute search of the sprawling warehouse.

By Associated Press

Colorado theater gunman James Holmes assaulted in prison

By Rialda Zukic

Colorado prison officials said an inmate assaulted Aurora theater shooter James Holmes and a prison officer at the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Judge sentences James Holmes to life in prison

By Corinne Segal

A judge formally sentenced James Holmes, who shot and killed 12 people and wounded 70 others at a movie theater in Aurora, C.O. in 2012, to life in prison with no parole on Wednesday.

After the verdict: Jurors, families react to James Holmes’s life sentence

By News Desk

Family members and others respond to a jury's decision to sentence James Holmes to life in prison without the possibility of parole rather than the death penalty.

‘Through this door is horror’: Opening statements begin in theater shooting trial

By Joshua Barajas

Prosecutors and defense lawyers will make their opening statements today at the trial of James Holmes, who opened fire and killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado nearly three years ago.