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Police finish gathering evidence at apartment

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By Brittany Schmidt - email

AURORA, CO (WKOW) – Police have finished collecting evidence from the apartment where Colorado shooting suspect lived, but residents are not allowed back at this time.

On Sunday, Aurora police said residents can retrieve personal items, but the building remains closed due to chemical hazards.

Police do not know when the residents will be allowed to go home

Investigators said they found a complicated array of booby-trapped explosives in the third-floor apartment where 24-year-old James Holmes lived.  It took bomb experts hours to dismantle and dispose of the material.

Holmes is suspected of opening fire in a movie theater early Friday, killing 12 people and injuring 58.

Police said the theater will remain closed as a crime scene for up to a week.

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