CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Day two of the Aurora theater trial adjourned for the day but not before an emotional 911 call from the Aurora theater was played for the jury.
The prosecution played audio of the call made by Kaylan Bailey, who was babysitting 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the youngest person killed in the shooting.
Bailey is heard screaming "I need help!" and "I can't hear you!" as she tearfully describes what happened to her "cute cousin." She's repeatedly told to perform CPR on the 6-year-old, but continually says that she can't.
The gut-wrenching tape abruptly ended, and the prosecution said it had no further questioning.
Bailey was the last to testify Tuesday.
"What I thought was originally a prank, this rocket thing shot across the theater from the right side of the theater to the left side, and then it seemed as if everyone turned their heads to see what it was," Bailey said.
Next, Bailey remembers Ashley jumping on top of Veronica, as the rest of them crouched on the floor. She says she remembers seeing her cousin standing and touching his head. There was blood trickling down his face.
"I remember he kept poking his head out – we all did, we all kept poking our heads out to see who was shooting and what was going – every time the bullets would go, every time they'd stop, they'd look up," Bailey said.
Prosecutors on Tuesday began the painful task of proving their case against Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, walking witnesses through the horror they endured as he rampaged through the darkened theater.
Before Bailey's testimony, Aurora Police Sgt. Hawkins took the stand. He described barreling down Interstate 225 at nearly 100 MPH after he heard a shots-fired report at the theater. He said he just knew it was something bad.
As he went into the theater and walked along the west-facing wall, he saw a woman who grabbed his leg and asked him to help her boyfriend.
"I noted that man had been shot," Hawkins said.
Many of the other witnesses that testified Tuesday were wounded during the shooting.
Katie Medley, the first witness to testify in the theater trial, said she thought her husband was dead after he was shot in the head but then noticed he was breathing. She said police opened the exit door and screamed for people to come outside.
She told her friend Ashley Kurz that she had to make a decision about whether to leave or stay with her husband, and she decided to leave to make sure their unborn baby - which could be the last piece of him - would survive. She said she took his hand and he squeezed it.
"I told him that I loved him and that I would take care of our baby if he didn't make it," she said.
As she and her friend left, she said she had to step over bodies on the floor and then slipped in a large amount of blood. A police officer caught her.
Caleb Medley briefly took the stand after Katie was done testifying. Due to his significant injuries, he had to use an alphabet board to effectively communicate with the court.
After Caleb, witness Munirih Gravelly took the stand. Her friend, Jesse Childress, died during the shooting. She and a few of her coworkers from Buckley Air Force Base had gone to the movie theater that night.
More of Childress' friends - Derick and Chichi Spruel - took the stand. Derick talked about how he thought the gunfire was fireworks at first. But then, terror consumed him when he realized he could die.
Derick's wife, Chichi, was examined after him. Her emotional 911 tape was played for the courtroom. She mentioned how she went through a range of emotions during the shooting. "I just remember screams everywhere," Chichi said.
When asked to elaborate, Chichi broke down in tears. District Attorney George Brauchler listened to the recording with his head bowed, partially covered by his hands.
Witness Prodeo Et Patria took the stand. He was 14 years old when the shooting happened. He recalled the pandemonium after the shooting started. He carried someone out of the theater while his father carried his mother on his back. While leaving the theater, Prodeo says he got shot in the back.
After Prodeo was done testifying, his father - Anggiat Mora - took the stand.
Holmes faces execution if he's convicted in connection with the 12 murders at an Aurora movie theater's midnight showing of the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises.
His lawyers concede he was the killer but say he suffers from schizophrenia and delusions that left him unable to tell right from wrong.
The defendants' attorneys say he was in the throes of a psychotic episode and couldn't tell right from wrong.
But prosecutors allege he planned the violence for months, amassing an arsenal that included guns, tear gas and body armor. They say he also stockpiled chemicals to rig his apartment into a potentially lethal booby trap.
The trial comes after attorneys and a judge spent two-and-a-half years hashing out legal questions and selecting a jury.
