Finalist: The Denver Post, by Staff
Nominated Work
An Aurora Police Department detective takes a witness statement following a mass shooting on July 20, 2012. (Karl Gehring - July 23, 2012)
Ian Sullivan is overcome with emotion as he arrives at Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colo. frantically searching for his daughter and his ex-wife. (Craig F. Walker - July 21, 2012)
Tom Sullivan, center, hugs his wife Terry, left, and daughter Megan outside Gateway High School, Friday July 20, 2012, in Aurora. (RJ Sangosti - July 21, 2012)
Amanda Medek wipes her tears outside Gateway High School while searching for her sister. (RJ Sangosti - July 21, 2012)
Victims and witnesses leave Gateway High School after being picked up by friends and family members on July 20, 2012. (Craig F. Walker - July 20, 2012)
Investigators survey the scene at the Aurora Century 16 movie theater as the suspect's gun lays on the concrete outside the back door to theater 9. (Helen H. Richardson - July 21, 2012)
Police investigate James Holmes' apartment near the intersection of 17th Street and Paris Street on Friday, July 20, 2012. (Stephen Mitchell - July 21, 2012)
A crowd of thousands converged Sunday, July 22, 2012, at the Aurora Municipal Center to honor the victims of the Century 16 movie theater shooting. (Joe Amon - July 23, 2012
Marlene Knobbe, grandmother of Micayla Medek, killed in the movie theater shooting, consoles family member (Aaron Ontiveroz - July 23, 2012)
Amanda Medek, the sister of victim Micayla Medek, 23, is overcome with grief as she sits in front of a cross that was made for her sister. (Helen H. Richardson - July 22, 2012)
Travis Hirko kneels at the cross of Alex Sullivan at a memorial for the victims of the Aurora Theater Shooting at the intersection of Sable Boulevard and Centerpoint Drive on Sunday, July 22, 2012. (Aaron Ontiveroz - July 23, 2012)
People comfort each other at the memorial for shooting victims at the corner of E. Centerpoint Dr. and S. Sable Blvd. in Aurora, CO. Sunday, July 22, 2012. (Hyoung Chang - July 23, 2012)
Chantel Blunk, wife of Jonathan Blunk, waits on the tarmac at Denver International Airport as her husband's body is prepared to be flown to Reno, Nevada for his full military funeral. (RJ Sangosti - July 28, 2012)
Theresa Hoover holds her son, Wil Boik, 22, during the funeral of her younger son, AJ Boik, 18, on Friday, July 27, 2012 at the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Aurora. (Joe Amon - July 27, 2012)
Chantel Blunk, center, says good-bye to her husband, Jonathan Blunk, surrounded by family and friends and her two children, Maximus Blunk, 2, and Hailey Blunk, 4, on Friday, August 3, 2012, during a full military funeral at Mountain View Mortuary in Reno, Nevada. (RJ Sangosti - August 3, 2012)</i>
With the casket of AJ Boik already placed inside, a woman pauses and places her hand on the back window of the hearse. (Kathryn Scott Osler - July 27, 2012)
Amanda Medek cries as she is led through a gauntlet of photographers on her way to the courtroom to witness a hearing for James Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people, including Medek's sister, Micayla, and injuring 58 others. (Joe Amon - July 23, 2012)
James E. Holmes appears in Arapahoe County District Court on Monday, July 23, 2012, in Centennial, Colo. (RJ Sangosti - July 24, 2012)