James Holmes Getaway Plan: Car Items Indicate Shooter Planned Fleeing (Photo)
The two-door hatchback vehicle of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes was found with a plethora of items showing indications of a planned escape. It's said that he was planning to flee the scene after the horrific incident.
A canister of tear gas, tire-puncturing devices, a .40-caliber handgun, ammunition and Holmes' iPhone along with a couple of backpacks were located inside the automobile pictured in the photo.
"I do think he was thinking that he was going to get away from that movie theater," former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole not associated with the investigation told Yahoo!.
The officer that handcuffed the suspect stated that Holmes was wearing SWAT attire and surrendered behind the Aurora theater without engaging in a fight.
A photograph shown in court revealed six caltrops in the vehicle's front seat. The "spike stops" or "road stars" are designed to disabled a car's tires once dropped.
"They were commonly used against the cavalry and infantry," Sgt. Matthew Fyles stated while on the stand.
O'Toole was employed by the FBI for 15 years in its Behavioral Analysis Unit where she studied psychopaths and played a role in their capture. She also said that Holmes' "ability to think analytically and critically has come out in this crime sense. This sounds like to me it was a contingency plan, where if he was being chased he could throw those things out the window."
The latest information comes around the same time that prosecutors described the tragic details in which Holmes orchestrated the theater mass shooting. A judge ruled on Thursday that there was indeed sufficient evidence for the shooting suspect to face trial amid the charges for killing 12 people and injuring 70 others on July 20.
The prosecutors will move forward with the 166 counts of felony, which includes murder and attempted murder, after establishing probable cause. The decision made followed a three-day hearing earlier in the week where prosecutors laid out their case against the 25-year-old suspected shooter.
