A Colorado jury on Thursday found James Holmes guilty of killing 12 people and wounding at least 70 others in a 2012 massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
The trial will now enter a second phase in which the jury will consider the punishment for Holmes, either life in prison or the death penalty.
After a nearly three-month trial, marked by gruesome crime-scene details and harrowing eyewitness testimony, the jury rejected the defense argument that Holmes, 27, was not guilty by reason of insanity.
His lawyers admitted he was the gunman in court filings, but argued that their client “was in the throes of a psychotic episode when he committed the acts.”