Ashley Moser drifted in and out of consciousness in a hospital intensive care unit, bullets lodged in her throat and a gunshot wound to her stomach.

US police have begun the intricate process of disarming booby traps in the apartment of the suspect behind the Colorado cinema shootings, hoping to find clues to the motive for the rampage without causing an explosion that could destroy key evidence.

Investigators looking for clues to the motive behind a shooting rampage at a screening of the new Batman movie sought to enter the suspect's elaborately booby-trapped apartment today.

A Colorado suburb shocked and saddened by a deadly shooting spree at a midnight premiere of the latest Batman movie grieved for the victims today.