James Holmes, the man convicted for the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, was reportedly assaulted by another inmate at the Colorado State Penitentiary. The 27-year-old inmate apparently lunged and swung at Holmes but did not injure him on October 8.

On Friday, a jury deciding the fate of Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes said they were unable to reach a unanimous sentencing decision, resulting in life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty for the man who killed 12 people and wounded 70 others at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, CNN reports.

James Holmes, who was accused of fatally shooting 12 people and injuring 70 others at a theater in Aurora, Colorado three years ago, has been found guilty of all 165 charges, including 24 counts of murder the first degree.

Arizona Senator Jeff Flake felt so bad for Caren Teves, whose son died shielding his girlfriend from bullets in the Aurora theater massacre, that he wrote her a handwritten note in response to a letter she sent him pleading for reform. "I am truly sorry for your deep loss," Flake wrote. "While we may not agree on every solution, strengthening background checks is something we agree on."

Family members of moviegoers who perished in the mass shooting at the Century Aurora 16 theater on July 20th are livid over an invitation by theater owner Cinemark to attend a movie screening at the reopened theater as part of a "special evening of remembrance."

Two months before alleged killer James Holmes stormed a Colorado movie theater, murdering 12 and injuring dozens more, police and politicians in a different place were trying to squelch the tremors from their own mass killing. It was in Chicago, over Memorial Day weekend, when police responded to more than 40 shooting victims in about 72 hours. Ten of those victims were shot dead, including four teenage children. Alas, despite the fact that more people died that weekend than in both the August 5 Sikh killings and yesterday's College Station shootings combined, there will be no flags at half-staff for those 10 Chicagoans. It's likely you didn't even know those people were dead, just like most of your friends and family. In a summer of now three much-lamented shootings with multiple victims, Chicago's murdered are the forgotten ones.

Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes reportedly raised serious red flags with his psychiatrist prior to the July 20 massacre, sources told Denver media outlets.

The City of Houston Mayor's Office — with financial assistance from the Department of Homeland Security — has produced a public service announcement aimed at helping individuals caught in the crossfire of an "active shooter event" escape unharmed.

Dane Cook posted a statement on Twitter a short while ago apologizing for his "bad judgment" in poking fun at the Aurora theater massacre less than a week after the shooting occurred.

A 28-year-old Maryland man who was on the cusp of being fired from his job at Pitney Bowes allegedly planned to attack his workplace with assault weapons, police in Maryland announced today.

It's been exactly one week since a gunman fired indiscriminately into the crowd at a Dark Knight Rises midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 59.

Three of the five Colorado hospitals currently treating those injured in the Aurora theater massacre have announced that they will either limit or erase altogether the medical expenses of uninsured victims.

Mostly forgotten comic strip Broom-Hilda made headlines yesterday after it appeared to be making light of the tragic Aurora movie theater shooting with a poorly timed joke.

The immediate aftermath of any American tragedy offers a heady potential for vile ideas. Details are scant, speculation is still wide open, motive is easily assigned—and in the rush to scoop other outlets, journalists don't have as much time to investigate claims, arguments or citations.

Here's something that almost all the mass killers of the last fifteen years or so have in common: they've been called "nerds." James Holmes, who allegedly murdered 12 people in a crowded Colorado movie theater on Friday morning, was described as a "nerd" by his uncle within hours of the shooting. Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is, in the Telegraph, a "puffy-faced computer game nerd." Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were "innocuous nerds," the Los Angeles Times claimed in 1999.

A shooter walked into a late-night showing of The Dark Knight Rises early Friday morning in Aurora, Colo., and opened fire. James Holmes, 24, killed 12 and wounded dozens more. Read our initial report here and catch up on the following stories on the Dark Knight shooting: