Evidence fills courtroom as trial's fourth week of Batman massacre ends

Autopsy reports triggered tears and anguish from jurors and family members at the end of the fourth week of the James Holmes mass murder trial on Saturday.

The prosecution continued its unrelenting display of evidence and expert testimony, and filled the courtroom with tears showing X-rays of 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan's bullet-hit body.

Since the trial began a month ago, prosecutors have shown 2,085 pieces of evidence and called 51 victims to the stand according to Arapahoe District Attorney George Brauchler.

Arapahoe County Coroner Kelly Lear-Kaul Thursday showed black-and-white images of a bullet fragment lodged in Veronica's pelvis and a breathing tube paramedics inserted trying to keep her alive, as jurors watched in stunned silence. In a powerful courtroom display, Lear-Kaul used a mannequin to show jurors the life-ending wounds Veronica sustained.

Veronica's father, Ian Sullivan, leaned forward and bowed his head, as tears flowed and deep breaths were heard throughout the courtroom.

Lear-Kaul performed five autopsies in two days following the July 20, 2012 shooting that killed 12 people and injured 70 others in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

James Holmes, 27, a neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado, plead "not guilty by reason of insanity" to avoid the death penalty in the carefully-planned massacre.

Patricia Hopkins, a chemist of the Aurora Police Department Crime Lab, who worked on the autopsies with Lear-Kaul, showed the courtroom Wednesday evidence from dead victims she obtained.

Hopkins showed the court a ticket stub from deceased 23-year-old Micayla Medek, then bullets from her spine, chest, hip, knee, abdomen, and left lung.

Hopkins also performed autopsies on John Larimer, 27, Jesse Childress, 29, and Jonathan Blunk, 26.

Childress sustained 10 metal pellets from a shotgun, while Blunk had "material" taken from his back, small fragments found in and behind his left ear, and two bullet fragments from his chest, according to Hopkins.

More pages of evidence were produced by the prosecution this week, including receipts for 10 magazines Holmes purchased for his Glock handgun, and an expensive, $600 blue-tooth headphone systems he bought at Target 10 days before the shooting.

Inside the black $350 "tactical" helmet he bought, Holmes rigged his headphones to blast techno-music when he entered the theater and unloaded hundreds of bullets into the unsuspecting audience.

More gripping testimony from witnesses was heard this week from moviegoer Marcus Kizzar, who, in the chaos, heard a woman screaming, "help me I'm going to die."

He helped the woman stand and flee the scene, then found his wife who was "covered in blood". Both survived the shooting.

Brauchler Thursday indicated that in the next month, prosecutors will call mental health experts to testify about court-ordered evaluations Holmes underwent before the trial began.

The prosecution will try to prove Holmes was sane at the time of the shooting, while the defense will focus on Holmes' life-long struggle with schizophrenia and the events that lead to his breakdown. Endi