Booby-trapped home of Colorado theater gunman goes back on rental market for $850 a month

The apartment was allegedly booby-trapped with grenades and tripwires

Police found the maze of bombs a day after the shooting which killed 12

One of the shooting victims' relatives said it should be 'burned down'

James Holmes opened fire during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises



The apartment allegedly booby-trapped by James Holmes, the Colorado theater gunman, is to be rented again, 18 months after the massacre.

More than 30 homemade grenades and ten gallons of gasoline was discovered in Holmes' North Aurora apartment in Colorado the day after the shooting which killed 12 people and wounded 70 in a screening of The Dark Knight Rises on July 20 last year.



Now the one bed, one bathroom 650 sq meter apartment is available to rent for $850 a month according to TMZ.com.

Available for rent: The former apartment (left and right) of accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes is on the rental market, advertised for $850 per month



Should be bulldozed: Families of shooting victims are outraged that the apartment (left as police try to dismantle the booby traps) is to be rented, advertised despite the horror allegedly caused by Holmes (right) who lived there at the time of the shooting last year



Wired: The court heard in October how police were considering letting the bombs in the apartment (as advertised today) go off and the building burn down because they originally thought it was safer than attempting to diffuse them



Bill Hoover, whose grandson A.J. Boik was killed in the shooting, said: ‘The place should be burned down or bulldozed.

‘I don't think anyone would want to stay there if they knew the evil acts that were done.’

The apartment is advertised as renovated and furnished. According to Zillow.com, the apartment is described as: 'Only two blocks from University Hospital and all the amenities of Fitzsimons. Completely renovated and furnished. We also pay heat which make this a steal at $850.'

In court in October this year, Lt Thomas Wilkes testified that the explosives found in the apartment were so sophisticated that police were originally going to let them go off and the building burn down as they thought it was safer than attempting to diffuse them.

During the July 2012 investigation of the apartment, a law enforcement official told CNN that grenades were wired to a control box in the kitchen, resembling setups that are more often seen in Iraq and Afghanistan.



Horror: People gather outside the Century 16 movie theater at the scene of the mass shooting which killed 12 people and wounded 70 others

Investigation: The Aurora bomb squad robot was deployed to search a suspect's car behind the theater after the shooting

Devastated: Tom Sullivan, center, embraces family members outside Gateway High School after his son Alex Sullivan, who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to see The Dark Knight Rises movie, was killed

He said that if they had went off as intended, the walls of nearby apartments would have been knocked down.

Holmes helped police officers diffuse the cache of alleged explosives, the court heard.