'You're not such a tough guy now': Colorado victims' families face 'killer Joker' as he makes disturbing first appearance at court...PART 2

Mourning: The father of six-year old Veronica Moser, the youngest victim, arrives at court for the hearing.

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My Thoughts: I always wonder what the world would truly look like, if we all react to the movies we watch and live out in real life, all what we see in movies...Crazy I swear! Parents, please watch over your children and wards and even yourselves... This is a clear, crazy and evil reaction to The Dark Knight...

Painful: Families and friends of the victims descended on the courtroom on Monday morning to face the man suspected of murdering their loved ones.

Emotional: Scores of relatives and friends attended the hearing, with some saying they did not believe Holmes's sad face - and felt he had no right to have one.

'If in fact he is sane, it's a hopeless case for the defense,' legal analyst, Scott Robinson, said. 'They caught him literally gunpowder-handed with his weapons, with his tactical gear.'

David Lane, a lawyer who has represented 25 people charged with death-penalty offenses, added: 'There are some crimes, the nature of which just scream out 'crazy.' This is one of those cases.'

He has been held at the Arapahoe Detention Center since his arrest in the cinema parking lot just moments after the shooting spree on Friday morning.

Jailors at the facility told the New York Daily News the suspect has not shown any remorse for the killings. He has been acting bizarrely ever since arriving and 'thinks he's acting in a movie', they said.

'He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,' a released inmate added outside the jail. 'He’s spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.'

It comes as new details shed light on a possible motive for the massacre. It is believed Holmes was due to be kicked out of his flat and may have recently broken up with a girlfriend, while one friend said his addiction to video games meant he had lost touch with reality.

But it could take months to figure out the cause behind the killings; as he waited for his first court appearance, authorities disclosed Holmes is refusing to cooperate.

Before being moved to the courtroom for the hearing, he was held in solitary confinement at an Arapahoe County detention facility.

He was assigned a public defender and Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said that the suspect has 'lawyered up' since his arrest in the early hours of Friday in the cinema parking lot.

'He's not talking to us,' Oates added.

In regards to a possible motice, Aurora police chief Daniel Oates had hinted that Holmes had recently gone through a break up and that authorities were investigating the claim.

'I’ve heard one morsel of information about a relationship that may or may not be true,' he told CBS' Face the Nation. 

'That’s why we have all our investigators working on this. That’s why we brought in the FBI behavioral analysts. They’re going to figure all that stuff out.'

It is also believed that Holmes was due to be evicted from his flat. The 24-year-old, who is now in police custody, pulled out of the university weeks before the deadly attack.

Neighbours told TMZ anyone living in the block had to be enrolled at the university otherwise you had 30 days to evacuate.

It is not known exactly when Holmes stopped going to classes but it is thought he was nearing the end of the 30-day grace period.

A former classmate from the University of Colorado suggested another cause for the killings, saying Holmes had lost touch with reality after becoming 'obsessed' with video games.

The classmate told the Daily Mail: 'James was obsessed with computer games and was always playing role-playing games. 

'I can’t remember which one but it was something like World of Warcraft, one of those where you compete against people on the internet.

WHO IS HOLMES' LAWYER?

It will undoubtedly become a household names in coming weeks: James O'Connor has been appointed as the public defender for James Holmes. 

Mr O'Connor is the head of the public defender's office that covers the sprawling 18th Judicial District from suburban Denver to the eastern Colorado plains. 

He specializes in criminal defense for felony cases - a good fit considering Holmes is the lone suspect in a shooting that left 12 dead and 58 injured and will likely be charged with multiple felonies. 

Mr O'Connor appears to be a true Coloradoan as he attended Regis University for his undergraduate degree in Denver and then went on to law school at the University of Colorado in Boulder. 

Though Holmes was seen in court on Monday morning, he was not seen next to Mr O'Connor. 

Instead, he was seen sitting next to Tamara Brady, who is also a public defender in the Colorado State's office.

Sentence: Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers talks to the media after the appearance. She said the prosecutor's office would talk with relatives on whether to pursue the death penalty.

Speaking out: Chambers speaks in the middle of a crowd of reporters with the Arapahoe County Court flags flying at half staff.

Fighting on: Relatives and friends of the victims leave court. Some have called for the death penalty.

Battle: Friends and family arrive at the courthouse on Monday morning in Centennial, around 13 miles from where the massacre took place.

'He did not have much of a life apart from that and doing his work. James seemed like he wanted to be in the game and be one of the characters.

DARK KNIGHT IS A BOX-OFFICE HIT

Despite the tragedy, The Dark Knight Rises has broken box office records.

The film was on track to earn more than $160million in the U.S. and Canada in its opening weekend, which would be a record for a non-3D movie.

‘This tragedy did not seem to impact the box office in amajor way,’ said Paul Dergarabedian,
an analyst for Hollywood.com.

He added: ‘For this film to still be in the rarified air of the top-three openings of all time
is phenomenal, given the unfortunate circumstancessurrounding the release of
this film.  

'It seemed that being online was more important to him than real life. He must have lost his sense of reality, how else can you shoot dozens of people you don’t know?'

Other acquaintances, who had worked with Holmes at a children's summer camp in 2008, noted he was an outsider who was 'shy and reserved'.

'The entire staff was really close, considering we lived together - except for James,' the counselor told NBC News. 

'He really kept to himself and hardly ever went on any trips with the rest of the staff. He was very shy and reserved. It is sickening knowing that he killed kids the same age that he once cared for.'

Holmes worked at the California camp during the summer of 2008, and supervised around 10 underprivileged children between the ages of seven and 14, a spokesperson said.

Amid the continuing investigation into Holmes and his character, memorial services were held in Aurora on Sunday, with the community holding a prayer vigil.

President Barack Obama also arrived to visit victims' families at the University of Colorado Hospital and said he told the families that 'all of America and much of the world is thinking about them'.

Several thousand gathered for healing at the vigil Sunday night, while well-wishers left notes, soft toys, pictures and flowers at crosses for each of the victims opposite the cinema in Aurora.

Waiting for justice: Surviving victims of the shooting and their relatives and friends arrive at the courthouse.

Scrum: Members of the media crowd around the courthouse ahead of Holmes's appearance.

Struggle: A mourner is grief stricken near the crosses representing the 12 people killed at the movie theater.

Remembering: Merri Brown of Aurora places a rose near the crosses representing the victims.

On Friday, the family of James Holmes also spoke out for the first time, through their lawyer Lisa Damiani in San Diego, California.

Damiani stressed that Holmes's mother, who had previously indicated her son was the man who had carried out the massacre, had been wrongly portrayed by the media. When she said, 'You have the right person', she meant herself, not her son, Damiani said.

The lawyer added: 'It is important that a case of this significance is tried in the courthouse, not in the media.'

Trail of blood: Police investigate Holmes's car outside the movie theatre on Friday morning'.

Victims: Six-year-old Veronica Moser, left, was the youngest victim shot dead in the massacre. Aspiring sportscaster Jessica Ghawi, right, also died.

Anguish: Mourners pray in front of a makeshift memorial after a prayer vigil at the Aurora Municipal Center.

Remembered: People visit a memorial for the victims across the street from the movie theater.

Support: People gather in prayer during a memorial outside the Aurora Municipal Center on Sunday.

May Their Souls Rest In Peace and May Justice Be Served.

Culled from The Daily Mail UK.

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