CENTENNIAL, CO (AP) -- The Colorado movie theater shooting suspect has shown little emotion as he makes his first court appearance with reddish orange hair.
The father of shooting victim Alex Teves sat in the front row with his eyes fixed on James Holmes.
James Holmes was wide-eyed, frowning and unshaven as he sat staring down. At one point he closed his eyes as a judge spoke.
He appeared after being accused of the shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater that killed 12 people and injured 58 others, including a Syracuse University graduate.
Holmes left the hearing in handcuffs. The judge says he will be formally charged next Monday.
Authorities say the 24-year-old former graduate student is refusing to cooperate and it could take months to learn what prompted the horrific attack on moviegoers at a midnight screening of the latest Batman film.
Investigators say they found a Batman mask inside Holmes' booby-trapped apartment after the attack. Police have said that Holmes began buying guns at Denver-area stores nearly two months before Friday's shooting and that he received at least 50 packages in four months at his home and at school.
Holmes has been held in solitary confinement since Friday.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the annual convention of the National Association of Police Organizations in Manalapan, Florida, where he told a meeting of law enforcement officials that despite the shooting, there is, in his words, "a hell of a lot more good out there than the evil you're sworn to take on."
Biden says "we weep for the families that lost their loved ones" in the Colorado movie theater shooting.
The vice president says the stories of heroes that have emerged from the shooting "remind us of the goodness" of the American people.
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