The suspect in last week’s deadly shooting rampage at a crowded Colorado movie theater booby trapped his apartment with more than 30 homemade grenades and 10 gallons of gasoline, a law enforcement official briefed the news media.
The sophisticated set up at the sparsely furnished Aurora home of James E. Holmes was meant to harm, or possibly kill, anyone who entered — and tested the skills of bomb squad members charged with clearing it.
“Imagine that fireball … you would have an explosion that would knock down the wall of (nearby) apartments,” the official said. “That flame would have consumed the entire third floor (of the apartment complex).”
“By the time a fire truck would have arrived, they would have arrived to a building that would have been completely consumed in flames.”
