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    Kaitlyn Fonzi nearly entered booby-trapped apartment

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It also appears that -- may have tried to blow up much of his apartment complex.

Loud techno music began blaring from his apartment at about the time that Holmes was already at the theater.

Authorities are saying if the front door to his apartment had been open.

The whole place could have gone up in flames that it's -- situation they are trying to defuse right now.

Joining us now all one of the women who came very close to opening that door Caitlin Ponzi and Chris Rodriguez her boyfriend.

They lived in the apartment immediately underneath.

The suspect James Holmes so it was roughly midnight.

You're get ready for bed.

And what.

Just what we initially thought was really hot and -- that this loud techno music started playing it was odd to begin my -- music starts playing.

Mom and I apartment complex at all that he.

Played music like that before -- -- apartment complex is usually really quiet there's no disturbances known -- and also this very odd that.

-- this -- it would just start playing.

That midnight so you never had to call the cops before because you've got loud music from the guy upstairs now.

Had you met.

In before I never met him idolized him in passing once or twice but knowing action.

What kind of a guy to be -- -- -- He just -- like -- -- -- -- even know that he -- in our building because it was just around the neighborhood.

All right so you hear this music blaring at the stroke of midnight techno music yeah apparently the same song playing over and over again.

-- we didn't know that it was on a loop until after I did actually go upstairs to try and tell him to turn the music off.

Comment about Friday and knocked on the door partly.

Trying to get someone's attention and there and I and notice there wasn't any voices -- anything.

Like as if they're our party going on what shocked me as odd you put your hand on the door and tried to not.

I did I did put my hand on the door and -- -- -- it did seem like it was unlocked but.

Something told me today and they've probably wasn't a good idea for me to go in there and so I just went back downstairs and called emergency police number.

Did you think about opening I mean did you think about opening to crack and I mean I definitely did think about opening it just -- and married a -- my head and then.

They say hey knock it off but.

Like -- -- and the Angel may not do.

And subsequently.

You found out that that -- that the door had been wired trip wired yes with a movie for a.

Yes and and that's terrifying but I'm also very grateful that I have that it sticks.

All right so you see what -- -- she tried to you know get the -- to quiet down.

Came back downstairs and what happened.

Well what we did she came it just says and so raw data in other -- it's still playing we could hear that music and it was on full blast blaring.

And that's -- well let's call -- -- emergency number.

Let's go ahead and see if they can get an officer out here.

Let's see if they can you know go in and talk to them maybe there's -- noise disturbance and so we call the non emergency number.

And officer who answered -- they'll try to get -- off throughout the they had.

Much bigger things to worry about at that point the shootings were already under way.

You're one very lucky woman according to the FBI in the ATF's I -- The.

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