James Eagan Holmes
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James Holmes
James Eagan Holmes ProfileBornJames Eagan Holmes
(1987-12-13) December 13, 1987 (age 24)
San Diego, California, U.S.ResidenceAurora, ColoradoNationalityAmericanOther namesJimmy Holmes[1]EducationBachelor of Science (neuroscience)Alma mater
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into 2012 Aurora shooting. (Discuss) Proposed since July 2012. James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is the suspected perpetrator of a mass shooting at a cinema that occurred on July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colorado. He has no known prior criminal record.[3]
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Holmes was born on December 13, 1987,[2] the son of a registered nurse and a mathematician working as a senior scientist.[4][5][6] His father has degrees from Stanford, UCLA and Berkeley.[1] James Holmes was raised in San Diego, California.[5][7][8] He graduated from Westview High School in the Torrey Highlands community of San Diego in 2006.[6][9][10] Holmes played soccer and ran cross-country at Westview High.[1]
He obtained an undergraduate degree with the highest honors[11][12] in neuroscience from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in 2010.[13] He was a member of several honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key.[14] The UCR chancellor stated that, having received the highest honors, Holmes was at the "top of the top".[15] He enrolled as a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. He received a federal grant to work on his Ph.D. there, and was one of only six neuroscience students at the school to receive National Institutes of Health grant money.[16] In 2012, his academic performance declined,[17] and he scored poorly on the comprehensive exam in the spring. The university was not planning to expel him. However, Holmes was in the process of withdrawing from the university.[18]
Holmes and his family were regular attendees of their local Presbyterian church.[19] In the summer of 2008, Holmes worked as a counselor at a summer camp in Los Angeles that catered to needy children aged 7–14. In Aurora, he lived on Paris Street in a one-bedroom apartment, in a building with other students involved in health studies.[20] He left few digital footprints, other than a university email address and an old Myspace photo.[21]
[edit] Aurora theater shooting
Century 16 at Town Center at Aurora, scene of the shooting.
Main article: 2012 Aurora shooting
Holmes is suspected of having shot into a cinema audience in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012 with multiple guns after setting off several gas or smoke canisters. The police arrested an unresisting Holmes behind the Century 16 cinema, next to his car. The responding officers recovered several guns from inside the car and the theater. According to two federal authorities, Holmes had painted his hair red and called himself "The Joker".[22] Once apprehended, Holmes told the police that he had booby-trapped his apartment with explosive devices before heading to the theater.[8][23][24] Police later confirmed the presence of explosives in the apartment.[25] A month before the shooting, Holmes had applied to join a private gun range.[26]
[edit] Detention
Holmes was jailed in the Arapahoe Detention Center, where he was put on suicide watch in solitary confinement.
[edit] Court arraignment
On July 23, 2012, Holmes, with hair still dyed reddish orange, made his first court appearance in Centennial, Colorado, in front of Judge William B. Sylvester. He was read his rights and no bond was given. A mandatory protection order was issued by the judge. The judge appointed a public defender. Formal charges will be filed on July 30, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. MDT. Holmes said nothing and never looked at the judge, only looking down at papers he was holding and looking forward.[27]
The courtroom was completely full, and a room was open to accommodate the number of reporters from around the world that went to report on his first court appearance.[28] Outside the courthouse, a growing number of reporters and curious onlookers gathered to have a glimpse of Holmes.[28
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James Holmes
James Eagan Holmes ProfileBornJames Eagan Holmes
(1987-12-13) December 13, 1987 (age 24)
San Diego, California, U.S.ResidenceAurora, ColoradoNationalityAmericanOther namesJimmy Holmes[1]EducationBachelor of Science (neuroscience)Alma mater
- University of California, Riverside
- University of Colorado, Denver (incomplete Ph.D. program)[2]
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into 2012 Aurora shooting. (Discuss) Proposed since July 2012. James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is the suspected perpetrator of a mass shooting at a cinema that occurred on July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colorado. He has no known prior criminal record.[3]
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- 1 Background
- 2 Aurora theater shooting
- 3 Detention
- 4 Court arraignment
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Holmes was born on December 13, 1987,[2] the son of a registered nurse and a mathematician working as a senior scientist.[4][5][6] His father has degrees from Stanford, UCLA and Berkeley.[1] James Holmes was raised in San Diego, California.[5][7][8] He graduated from Westview High School in the Torrey Highlands community of San Diego in 2006.[6][9][10] Holmes played soccer and ran cross-country at Westview High.[1]
He obtained an undergraduate degree with the highest honors[11][12] in neuroscience from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in 2010.[13] He was a member of several honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key.[14] The UCR chancellor stated that, having received the highest honors, Holmes was at the "top of the top".[15] He enrolled as a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. He received a federal grant to work on his Ph.D. there, and was one of only six neuroscience students at the school to receive National Institutes of Health grant money.[16] In 2012, his academic performance declined,[17] and he scored poorly on the comprehensive exam in the spring. The university was not planning to expel him. However, Holmes was in the process of withdrawing from the university.[18]
Holmes and his family were regular attendees of their local Presbyterian church.[19] In the summer of 2008, Holmes worked as a counselor at a summer camp in Los Angeles that catered to needy children aged 7–14. In Aurora, he lived on Paris Street in a one-bedroom apartment, in a building with other students involved in health studies.[20] He left few digital footprints, other than a university email address and an old Myspace photo.[21]
[edit] Aurora theater shooting
Century 16 at Town Center at Aurora, scene of the shooting.
Main article: 2012 Aurora shooting
Holmes is suspected of having shot into a cinema audience in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012 with multiple guns after setting off several gas or smoke canisters. The police arrested an unresisting Holmes behind the Century 16 cinema, next to his car. The responding officers recovered several guns from inside the car and the theater. According to two federal authorities, Holmes had painted his hair red and called himself "The Joker".[22] Once apprehended, Holmes told the police that he had booby-trapped his apartment with explosive devices before heading to the theater.[8][23][24] Police later confirmed the presence of explosives in the apartment.[25] A month before the shooting, Holmes had applied to join a private gun range.[26]
[edit] Detention
Holmes was jailed in the Arapahoe Detention Center, where he was put on suicide watch in solitary confinement.
[edit] Court arraignment
On July 23, 2012, Holmes, with hair still dyed reddish orange, made his first court appearance in Centennial, Colorado, in front of Judge William B. Sylvester. He was read his rights and no bond was given. A mandatory protection order was issued by the judge. The judge appointed a public defender. Formal charges will be filed on July 30, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. MDT. Holmes said nothing and never looked at the judge, only looking down at papers he was holding and looking forward.[27]
The courtroom was completely full, and a room was open to accommodate the number of reporters from around the world that went to report on his first court appearance.[28] Outside the courthouse, a growing number of reporters and curious onlookers gathered to have a glimpse of Holmes.[28
I definitely agree with you that something's off with him. I think that people split hairs when they start terming certain murderers 'insane' though. If you ask me, anyone who would take someone's life for whatever reason has a mental defect.
I also agree that drugs definitely have a role here, he actually looked like he was going through withdrawals or coming down from something... my guess would be a cocktail of street drugs and prescription/anti-depressants. At the same time, I say that there is no way that he could have carried this whole thing out if he was as loony as he tried to appear today.... and that a lot of it was an act.
Bottom line, I wish the media wouldn't give this POS the attention that they are. Pretty much pointless, and just encourages others to do the same.
