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Psychiatrist: Child's death saddens Colorado theater shooter
Published May 03, 2016
March 12, 2013: In this file photo, James Holmes, left, and defense attorney Tamara Brady appear in district court in Centennial, Colo., for his arraignment. (AP)
A psychiatrist who examined Colorado theater shooter James Holmes says Holmes expressed sadness when he learned a child died in the attack.
Dr. William Reid testified Monday that Holmes had a point system for victims but that children were "morally different."
Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the July 2012 attack that killed 12 people, including 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan.
Reid conducted one of two state-ordered evaluations of Holmes. The psychiatrist concluded Holmes was sane at the time of the shooting.
Defense lawyers say Holmes had severe schizophrenia, which distorted his sense of right and wrong.
Prosecutors are showing jurors videotapes of Reid's interviews with Holmes. At one point on the video, Holmes says he believes he gets the economic value of anything his victims would have accomplished.
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