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 Shooting suspect was doctoral student, had 'obvious intellectual capacity', All victims RIP
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Posted on 07-20-12 11:17 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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It was unfortunate how mentally disturbed he was. Innocent ppl lost lives for no reason. Rest in peace all the victims.

By Mariano Castillo, CNN
updated 10:45 PM EDT, Fri July 20, 2012
The shooter was identified by two federal law enforcement officers as James Holmes, 24, of Aurora.
The shooter was identified by two federal law enforcement officers as James Holmes, 24, of Aurora.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Neighbors tell police Holmes kept to himself
  • James Holmes is named as the suspect in the Aurora, Colorado, shooting
  • He was withdrawing as a student from a doctoral program at the University of Colorado
  • "Academically, he was at the top of the top," California college official says

(CNN) -- The 24-year-old man police say opened fire early Friday on a movie audience was a doctoral student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora.

Suspected gunman James Eagan Holmes was in the school's doctoral neuroscience program and was in the process of withdrawing at the time of the shooting, university officials said. Holmes had enrolled at the university in June 2011.

"As a grad student you have an opportunity to work for the university in the research program for the programs that you're studying," university spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said. "He worked in the neurosciences program. It is a paid position."

He lived in Aurora in a one-bedroom apartment in a building whose tenants were primarily other students involved in health studies.

Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates said the suspect's sole interaction with the police department was an October 2011 summons for speeding.

Police said the shooter entered the sold-out movie theater dressed in black, wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, protectors over his throat and his groin, a gas mask and black tactical gloves.

Witnesses saw the attacker throw two canisters -- possibly containing tear gas -- before opening fire. He said nothing, one witness said.

Gunman opens fire inside Colorado movie theater

Police arrested Holmes near his vehicle. "He surrendered without any significant incident to our officers," Oates said.

A federal law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that Holmes had colored his hair red and told police that he was "the Joker."

Oates said he would not release the suspect's mug shot "for investigative reasons."

While none of the witnesses has told CNN that Holmes had red hair, they have described the shooter as wearing a gas mask that concealed much of his face and head.

A syllabus that lists Holmes as a student at the medical school shows that he may have taken a class in which he studied topics as diverse as substance abuse, schizophrenia, depression and other disorders.

According to the document, he was to have delivered a presentation in May about microRNA biomarkers.

Holmes had enrolled at the university in June 2011.

Surprise from neighbors of shooting suspect

Police said Holmes was living in a small apartment on Paris Street in Aurora, in Apartment 10, within walking distance of the school.

"Neighbors report he lived alone and he kept to himself," Oates said.

Apparently, Holmes told police that he had booby-trapped the third-floor apartment. "We are not sure what we're dealing with in the home," Oates said. "They appear to be incendiary devices; there's some chemical elements there. ... They're linked together with all kinds of wires. As a layman, it's not something I've ever seen before."

Bomb technicians were on site, and it could be days before the matter is resolved, he said.

Authorities have postponed any efforts to enter the apartment until Saturday, Oates said. Resources from the federal government are being brought in to assist, he said.

Donald Robert Davis, 52, lived in that same apartment for about two years before moving out about a year ago. He described it as an approximately 850-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment with one bathroom for which he paid $525 per month, not including utilities.

Shooting turns movie into surreal horror

On Friday, authorities evacuated the entire apartment building and four others nearby after Holmes made a "statement about explosives" to police, Oates said.

Jackie Mitchell, who lives close to Holmes, had a beer with the suspected gunman on Tuesday.

Mitchell expressed shock Friday over the attack.

"You would never guess he was a violent guy," Mitchell said, describing Holmes as "nerdish" and "a book-smart type guy."

A neighbor who lives one floor below Holmes' third-floor apartment, Tori Lynn Everhart, described the apartments this way: "It's not like true ghetto. It's not the safest neighborhood, but it's definitely improving."

In San Diego, the suspect's family issued a statement saying they were still trying to process the news.

"Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved," the Holmes family said, without giving any information about the suspected shooter.

Theater shooting unfolds in real time on social media

The Poway Unified School District in San Diego said that James Holmes graduated from Westview High School in 2006.

Tom Mai, a neighbor of the Holmes family in San Diego, described Holmes as "clean-cut, quiet, responsible."

In the fall of 2006, he entered the University of California, Riverside, graduating with a B.S. in neuroscience in the spring of 2010. "Academically, he was at the top of the top," Chancellor Timothy P. White told reporters Friday.

Holmes was a scholarship student who graduated with highest honors, said White, and had an "obvious intellectual capacity."

The school was offering counseling services to students, faculty and staff.

UCR police have no record of any contact with Holmes, the school said.


 
Posted on 07-20-12 11:26 PM     [Snapshot: 20]     Reply [Subscribe]
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extremely intelligent and talented, and 'bheja fry'
RIP all victims :(

 
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Posted on 07-21-12 1:52 AM     [Snapshot: 251]     Reply [Subscribe]
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can't understand why he went to the theater to do this ? couldn't found his side of story about why he did this ? anyway RIP victims !

 
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Thesedays people who would be nerds for life are exposed to violent video games that they play by themselves. Even if they look like a nerd in the outside world to most people, they will have learnt to be action heroes within their computer games. Then when the person snaps due to any possible reason, the action hero comes out to defy their real world persona.

 


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