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The suspected mass killer James Holmes no more than an average student, researchers at science camp he attended say... Eagleman says, "Holmes is being depicted as some sort of brilliant researcher who won a rare grant, but there are thousands of research students in this country with such grants. Everyone has one. There is nothing elite about it."

His hair dyed orange-red and a dazed look on his face, the man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at the opening of the new Batman movie appeared Monday in court for the first time.

Authorities on Saturday began disarming trip wires and explosive devices "set up to kill" inside the apartment of the suspect in the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting, hoping to find clues to his motive without destroying key evidence in a blast.

Neighbors of the man accused of firing in a packed movie theater outside Denver are facing another day away from home as police work to determine if he booby-trapped his apartment.

Families are being notified by police that their loved ones are among the victims in a deadly shooting rampage in suburban Denver. A sports blogger who recently wrote about surviving a shooting in Canada. A man preparing to celebrate his first wedding anniversary. A young woman whose death announcement brought heartbreak, yet closure, to her family.

Holmes graduated in the spring of 2010 with a degree in neuroscience from the University of California-Riverside, where he was remembered as an outstanding student who attended on a merit-based scholarship. "He was at the top of the top," said Chancellor Timothy White at a hastily called news conference. "He really distinguished himself."

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is a member of a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, but when he issued a statement expressing shock and horror on Friday after a mass shooting at a movie theater, he had nothing to say about gun control.

Following the shooting deaths of at least 12 people at an Aurora, Colo., theater last night during a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," a trailer for the upcoming movie "Gangster Squad" that was offered with the film has been pulled, Warner Brothers has reportedly confirmed to NBC News.

Some theaters and police around the U.S. stepped up security at daytime showings of the new Batman movie Friday after the massacre in Colorado, and while many fans were undeterred by the tragedy, others were nervous about going to see the film.