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Updates on breaching the apartment of Aurora shooter James Holmes

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Running updates on the operation to breach the apartment of Aurora theater shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes:

11: 17 a.m. – Aurora Police have advised media to stand behind their vehicles. They are confident in the safety of the perimeter, but are advising this extra precaution.

11:35 a.m. – Expecting an airhorn blast in 5-10 minutes; and then a detonation.

11:40 a.m. – Peoria St. is closed.

11:44 – The controller detonation has happened.

11:47 a.m. – Detonation was successful. Peoria is now reopened.

The living room of the 800-square-foot apartment is littered with about 30 softball-sized improvised explosive devices, according to a bomb technician at the scene.

Bomb technicians used a water bottle device to disable the “9D trip device” in the apartment, according to a source at the scene. They sent the device in with a robot, the robot dropped the water device and then retreated.

The Denver Post

Kaitlyn Fonzi lives downstairs from James Holmes, turned his doorknob at midnight

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There are close calls and then there’s this:

“[James Holmes] rigged his apartment with what authorities fear are deadly explosives and blared techno music from his stereo in what’s believed to be an attempt to invite more devastation when the door was opened.

“[...] Kaitlyn Fonzi, a 20-year-old biology student at University of Colorado Denver who lives in an apartment below Holmes’ said she heard techno music blasting from Holmes apartment around midnight. Another tenant said residents called 9-1-1 about the racket. Fonzi went upstairs and knocked on the door. When no one answered, she put her hand on the knob and realized the door was unlocked. Fonzi decided not to go inside the apartment. At almost exactly 1 a.m., Fonzi said, the music stopped.”

via: Canon City Daily Record

Denver law enforcement now dealing with James Holmes’ booby-trapped apartment

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And things get complicated further. We wish authorities luck as they try to defuse what sounds like a serious explosive device at Holmes’ apartment. (via AP, Reuters; read more here)

EDIT: Via MSNBC (ht Matt), apparently the explosives are dangerous enough that they’ve evacuated FIVE nearby buildings.

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Police investigate the Aurora theater shooting suspect’s apartment near the intersection of 17th Street and Paris Street on Friday, July 20, 2012. (Stephen Mitchell, The Denver Post)