2 p.m. update
AURORA | Jurors in the Aurora theater shooting trial saw selfies James Holmes snapped with his arsenal before the shootings Wednesday — including shots of him grinning while holding bombs and scowling with an assault rifle.
In most of the images, which police pulled from Holmes’ iPhone after the shootings, Holmes is wearing contact lenses that turn his entire eye black.
Other pictures show bombs on the floor of Holmes’ apartment, an electronic ignition system to set the bombs off and Holmes’ guns, ammunition and body armor laid out on his bed.
Aurora police Detective Gordon Madonna, a computer forensics expert, also testified that police pulled information from the phone about Holmes’ calls and text messages. Holmes’ last call went out at about 12:30 a.m. July 20, just minutes before he opened fire inside the theater, killing 12 and wounding 70 others.
Holmes told a psychiatrist he made that call to his therapist while he was donning body armor outside the theater.
11:30 a.m. update
AURORA | For the first time in nearly two weeks, jurors in the Aurora theater shooting trial heard from a survivor who was in the theater the night of the shooting.
Patricia Rohrs, who was at the Aurora Century 16 theater that night with her boyfriend, 4-year-old son and 4-month-old daughter, was wounded in the leg by shrapnel in the shooting.
The trial, which is in its 29th day, saw testimony from victims every day until last week, when prosecutors shifted their focus to the psychiatrists who interviewed defendant James Holmes.
Rohrs testified that after the shooting started, she lost contact with her son and now-husband, Jamie Rohrs. She said she ducked down and covered her infant daughter, but was worried she would be shot anyway.
“I tried to stay low but I was still in my head thinking I needed to get out of here,” she said.
When the shooting slowed, Rohrs said she was able to grab her children with the help of another survivor, Jerrell Brooks, and flee out a door in the back of the theater.
Other witnesses Wednesday were a Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic expert who testified about the weapons used in the shooting and a FedEx employee who helped Holmes receive a package in July 2012.
Prosecutors are expected to call Holmes’ former girlfriend as well, possibly as soon as this afternoon.
