The residents of Aurora, Colo, will have a difficult time facing suspected movie theater shooter James Holmes when he makes his first court appearance today, Police Chief Daniel Oates said.
"He has harmed so many people," Oates said. "Not only the victims, but all of their extended families. So I think it will be very hard."
Holmes allegedly left 12 people dead and 58 injured during last week's premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises."
Oates also told ABC News that Holmes' parents have remained silent.
"They're not taking to us right now," he said. "Maybe that will change, but right now they are not talking to us."
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The suspect will be brought to court from his jail cell at Arapahoe County Jail through an underground tunnel. Many people are likely to study his face, demeanor and his dyed hair.
Holmes, 24, is likely facing multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder. Today's appearance is a scheduled hearing to tell him why he is being held.
The court appearance is expected to be brief and will start the clock on the 72-hour deadline for the district attorney to file formal charges at an arraignment where Holmes will enter his plea.
The police chief told ABC News that his team is getting significant help from the FBI's behavioral analysts in trying to figure out what could have changed Holmes from a promising young student to a suspect in one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history.
Authorities found a computer and Batman poster and a Batman mask from the comic books in his apartment, according to sources, ABC News Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas said Sunday on "This Week."
"I was struck by one source today who said that this 'was really like a mad scientist, really like a villain in a movie,'" Thomas said. "We are being told by sources that they have found the computer, and also a poster of Batman."
ABC News learned this weekend that Holmes apparently applied online for a membership at a local gun range last month. On the application, he apparently said he did not use drugs and was not a convicted felon. When Glenn Rotkovich, who owns the Lead Valley Range in Byers, Colo., called him to follow up, he said, he got a "bizarre," Batman-inspired voicemail message.
He told his staff not to allow Holmes into the club if he showed up for an orientation.
ABC News early Sunday obtained exclusive video and photos of Holmes as a thin teenager in an oversized shirt from a science camp six years ago at Miramar College in San Diego.
"Over the course of the summer, I've been working with a temporal illusion. It's an illusion that allows you to change the past," Holmes said in the video.
By most accounts, Holmes lived the life of a normal teen, with a particular interest in science.
The video shows him being introduced at the seminar as someone whose "goals are to become a researcher and to make scientific discoveries. In personal life, he enjoys playing soccer and strategy games and his dream is to own a Slurpee machine."
How Holmes went from a student enrolled in a neuroscience graduate program at the University of Colorado to a man amassing more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet prior to the alleged shooting is what investigators are now trying to figure out.
President Obama traveled to the town of Aurora, Colo., Sunday night and met with the victims for more than two and a half hours.
Obama told assembled media of his mindset when he approaches families who have lost their own.
"I come to them not so much as a president, but as a father and husband," he said. "And I think that the reason these stories have such an impact on us is because we can all understand what it would be to have somebody we love taken from us. What it would be like."
This was the president's second visit to the state in less than a month to cope with loss. He toured a Colorado Springs neighborhood in late June to console homeowners caught in devastating wildfires. At least two were killed in the blaze, which devoured hundreds of homes.
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