MOSCOW, April 1 – RAPSI, Ingrid Burke. Colorado prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against James Holmes, the man who stands accused of having carried out a devastating mass shooting during a midnight screening of Batman: the Dark Knight Rises last July, according to a document filed Monday by prosecutors notifying Holmes’ attorneys of their intent to seek the death penalty.

The document states simply: “The People provide this notice to the defendant, James Eagan Holmes, and to the court that the People intend to seek the death penalty in this case.”

During a midnight on July 20, a man burst into a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire on the massive crowd inside. 12 were killed and 58 injured in the rampage.

Holmes was formally charged in August with 24 counts of first degree murder, 116 counts of attempted first degree murder, one count of possession of explosives, and one count of violence in connection with the mass shooting.

Prosecutors filed two first-degree murder charges for each of the 12 victims that lost their lives as a result of the attack.

The first 12 charges claim that Holmes committed the murders “after deliberation, and with the intent to cause the death of a person other than himself.”

The second 12 claim that Holmes, “under circumstances evidencing an attitude of universal malice manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life generally, knowingly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death to persons other than himself, and thereby caused the death” of each such victim.

The prosecution filed attempted murder charges under both first-degree murder theories outlined above for each of the 58 injured victims as well.