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Families involved in a 2012 movie theatre mass shooting in Colorado have asked the studio behind "Joker" to help lobby for gun reform, expressing concern about the film's portrait of a mental breakdown that leads to violence.

The 59-year-old American who opened fire in a Louisiana theater killing two people and wounding nine more purchased his handgun legally, police said Friday.

An Oregon man with a history of mental distress was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of harassing family members of some of the 12 people slain by a gunman who opened fire on moviegoers inside a Colorado, theater last summer, police said.

A University of Colorado psychiatrist who once treated accused theater gunman James Holmes described him to a campus police officer as having had "homicidal thoughts" five weeks before he allegedly killed 12 moviegoers, newly unsealed court records showed on Thursday.

A US judge entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday on behalf of alleged Aurora theater gunman James Holmes, and set an August date for him to stand trial over the horrific massacre.

As officials this week laid out the most detailed portrait yet of last year's Aurora movie theater massacre, they also mapped sometimes paradoxical behavior by the man accused of the rampage, James Holmes.

It was just hours after a Colorado movie theatre shooting, and James Holmes was not acting like a man accused of methodically planning the attack that killed 12 people.

Prosecutors are in court on monday outline their case against the young United States man suspected of shooting 12 people dead at a midnight premiere of the latest "Batman" film. The hearing, the first extensive public disclosure of the attack's details, will determine whether the case will go to trial.

Attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theatre shootings said on Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness. James Holmes' lawyers made the disclosure at a court hearing in suburban Denver where news media organizations asked a judge to unseal documents in the case.

A northeast Ohio man brought a gun, ammunition and several knives to a showing of the latest Batman movie because he wanted to protect himself in case someone tried to replicate last month's deadly Colorado theatre shooting, his attorney said on Tuesday.

A bloody movie theatre massacre cast a shadow over this corner of Colorado, but the golden Olympic performance of local teenager Missy Franklin has proved a light in the darkness.

The Colorado movie theater complex that was the scene of a massacre earlier this month didn't have any uniformed security guards on duty the night of the shooting, even though other theaters operated by the same company did provide such protection for the busy premiere of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.

DC Comics is asking retailers to postpone sales of a Batman comic book out of respect for victims of the shooting at a theatre showing "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado.

The man accused of killing a dozen people at a Colorado screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" wants to know how the film ends, a stunned jail worker reportedly told media.

Christian Bale has travelled to Aurora, Colorado to meet with those involved in the movie theatre shootings.

Families involved in a 2012 movie theatre mass shooting in Colorado have asked the studio behind "Joker" to help lobby for gun reform, expressing concern about the film's portrait of a mental breakdown that leads to violence.

The 59-year-old American who opened fire in a Louisiana theater killing two people and wounding nine more purchased his handgun legally, police said Friday.

An Oregon man with a history of mental distress was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of harassing family members of some of the 12 people slain by a gunman who opened fire on moviegoers inside a Colorado, theater last summer, police said.

A University of Colorado psychiatrist who once treated accused theater gunman James Holmes described him to a campus police officer as having had "homicidal thoughts" five weeks before he allegedly killed 12 moviegoers, newly unsealed court records showed on Thursday.

A US judge entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday on behalf of alleged Aurora theater gunman James Holmes, and set an August date for him to stand trial over the horrific massacre.

As officials this week laid out the most detailed portrait yet of last year's Aurora movie theater massacre, they also mapped sometimes paradoxical behavior by the man accused of the rampage, James Holmes.

It was just hours after a Colorado movie theatre shooting, and James Holmes was not acting like a man accused of methodically planning the attack that killed 12 people.

Prosecutors are in court on monday outline their case against the young United States man suspected of shooting 12 people dead at a midnight premiere of the latest "Batman" film. The hearing, the first extensive public disclosure of the attack's details, will determine whether the case will go to trial.

Attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theatre shootings said on Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness. James Holmes' lawyers made the disclosure at a court hearing in suburban Denver where news media organizations asked a judge to unseal documents in the case.

A northeast Ohio man brought a gun, ammunition and several knives to a showing of the latest Batman movie because he wanted to protect himself in case someone tried to replicate last month's deadly Colorado theatre shooting, his attorney said on Tuesday.

A bloody movie theatre massacre cast a shadow over this corner of Colorado, but the golden Olympic performance of local teenager Missy Franklin has proved a light in the darkness.

The Colorado movie theater complex that was the scene of a massacre earlier this month didn't have any uniformed security guards on duty the night of the shooting, even though other theaters operated by the same company did provide such protection for the busy premiere of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.

DC Comics is asking retailers to postpone sales of a Batman comic book out of respect for victims of the shooting at a theatre showing "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado.

The man accused of killing a dozen people at a Colorado screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" wants to know how the film ends, a stunned jail worker reportedly told media.

Christian Bale has travelled to Aurora, Colorado to meet with those involved in the movie theatre shootings.