Colorado Theater Shooter James Holmes Attacked in Prison

A prisoner attacked James Holmes, the man behind the deadly Aurora, Colorado, shooting of 2012 and was given 12 life sentences this summer.

Mark C. Daniels will face administrative punishments for the assault, which did not injure Holmes, according to Reuters. The 27-year-old Daniels attacked Holmes at the Colorado State Penitentiary as they were both being walked down a prison hallway by a guard, who was able to get in between the two inmates and break up the attack.

Daniels is in jail for a variety of offenses including assault, menacing, smuggling contraband into prison and assaulting a prison guard.

In addition to the 12 life sentences, Holmes was given more than 3,000 more years for the various other crimes, like assault and attempted murder, he committed in the midnight movie shooting that left 12 people dead and 70 others wounded. Among those offenses was rigging his apartment with a homemade bomb that the bomb squad was needed to defuse and could have killed dozens of his neighbors.

Holmes had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but the jury did not agree with that plea. Holmes also faced the death penalty for his rampage, but the jury could not agree unanimously that he should be executed and so received a life sentence for each of the people he killed.

Holmes was relocated to the Colorado State Penitentiary just in September and told his court psychiatrist that other prisoners referred to him as a baby killer. The youngest of Holmes' 12 victims was a 6-year-old girl.

It is likely that Holmes will live much of the rest of his life in solitary confinement because of his high profile and the fact that other inmates will target him constantly.