Batman Shooter RA PhD Student

[Virtual Bison]

That shits fucked up!

[Albert Hidel]

How does an unemployed douchebag afford $20,000 for weapons and gear? Your tax dollars at work.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency—making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.

http://www.nih.gov/about/

How's that "saving lives" thing working out for you?

But don't worry, the RA uni did everything they should have. They think. At this point. To the best of their knowledge.

James Holmes Received $26K Grant From Bethesda-Based National Institutes of Health

July 24, 2012 7:49 AM

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) - James Holmes, the alleged gunman in the recent theater shooting that left 12 dead in Aurora, Colo., was previously awarded a $26,000 federal grant.

WNEW News reports that Holmes was awarded a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

It gave the graduate student a $26,000 stipend and paid his tuition for the highly competitive neuroscience program at the University of Colorado in Denver. Holmes was one of six neuroscience students at the school to get the grant money.

Holmes is expected to be formally charged next Monday. He is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and he could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations. Holmes has been assigned a public defender.

Weeks before, Holmes quit a 35-student Ph.D. program in neuroscience for reasons that aren’t clear. He had earlier taken an intense oral exam that marks the end of the first year but University of Colorado Denver officials would not say if he passed, citing privacy concerns.

At a news conference, university officials refused to answer questions about Holmes. “To the best of our knowledge at this point, we think we did everything that we should have done,” Donald Elliman, the university chancellor.

The judge has issued an order barring lawyers in the case from publicly commenting on matters including evidence, whether a plea deal is in the works or results of any examination or test performed on someone.

[Dickie Billericay]

James Holmes, the alleged gunman in the recent theater shooting that left 12 dead in Aurora, Colo., was previously awarded a $26,000 federal grant.

James Holmes & George Gollin
High School Dorks


George Gollin & James Holmes
"...first you get yourself a federal grant, then...."

[Herbert Spencer]

Here's why the weasel words from the uni spokes-hole. They sat on the nut case's warning for eight days!

Mass murder suspect James Holmes sent notebook detailing ‘Dark Knight’ massacre plan to shrink: report
The package arrived at the University of Colorado days before the attack but was lost in the campus mail system until it was too late.

By Matthew Lysiak , Jeremy Pelzer , Judith Crosson AND Larry Mcshane / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 1:15 PM

A notebook filled with sketches of deranged dropout James Holmes’ movie massacre plan sat unopened in a college mailroom for eight days as he finalized details of the killing spree.

The flame-haired accused killer mailed the notebook to a University of Colorado psychiatrist long before the bloody rampage that left 12 dead and 58 wounded last Friday, FoxNews.com reported.

“Inside the package was a notebook full of details about how he was going to kill people,” a law enforcement source told FoxNews. “There were drawings of what he was going to do in it — drawings and illustrations of the massacre.”

The package, now in the hands of the FBI, listed Holmes’ name in the return address and included drawings of armed stick figures gunning down stick figure victims.

It arrived in the mailroom on July 12, leaving Holmes a week to make his final grisly preparations for the midnight mass murders, according to the report.

It was not discovered until three days after the shootings.

Word of the parcel mailed by the creepy California native came Wednesday as Holmes taunted a prison worker about the movie “The Dark Knight Rises” and mourners attended the first funeral for an attack victim.

Holmes, who paid his way into the Century 16 multiplex and watched some of the movie before unleashing his fusillade of firepower, asked a jail employee what he missed after his arrest, an eyewitness told the Daily News.

“Did you see the movie?” a disoriented Holmes asked. “How does it end?”

The worker ignored him, so Holmes, his eyes glazed and his voice flat, repeated the question, according to another jail employee who witnessed the incident in the infirmary.

The ex-honor student “was trying to look like he was sincerely curious,” the witness recounted.

“Like he had no idea why there was anything wrong with what he was saying. It was sick. . . . I think he’s trying real hard to act crazy.”

The second jail worker was stunned by Holmes’ callous question about the movie now synonymous with his homicidal rampage.

“If he said that to me, it would have been real hard to resist smacking him,” the worker said.
. . .

[Martin Eisenstadt]

[WilliamW]

[WilliamW]

So the shrink treating the mass murderer was part of the "campus threat-assessment team."

Isn't this a lot like the "Conflict of Interest Officer" whose campus is beset with weekly conflict of interest scandals?

Can we expect U of Colorado to ignore the obvious incompetence, just like U of Illinois does?

Holmes was taking Vicodin, even took some before the attack. Wonder who prescribed it, and what else she was giving him? Maybe a little Ambien too, like that Kennedy-tard?


Dr. Lynne Fenton
Hey doc, why are your eyes like, all weird? Or is it just the drugs you gave me?

Colo. Shooting Suspect Was Under Care of Threat-Assessment Psychiatrist
Friday, 27 Jul 2012 07:44 PM

A former University of Colorado graduate student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area movie theater last week had been under the care of a psychiatrist who was part of a campus threat-assessment team.

The disclosure came in court documents filed on Friday by lawyers for James Holmes, 24, who is accused of opening fire last Friday on a packed showing of the latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," in the Denver suburb of Aurora.

The defense attorneys, in their request to an Arapahoe County district judge, are seeking a court order requiring prosecutors to turn over the contents of a package that Holmes sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton and was later seized by investigators.

"Mr. Holmes was a psychiatric patient of Dr. Fenton, and his communications with her are protected," the filing said.

Fenton, medical director for student mental health services at the University of Colorado-Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, provides medication and psychotherapy for grad students in addition to her teaching duties, according to a school website.

A professional biography of Fenton posted on the site said she had conducted research on schizophrenia, including a two-year grant to work in the schizophrenia research department of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 2008 to 2010.

Fenton also is a member of the campus-based "behavioral assessment and threat assessment team," which helps faculty and staff deal with "individuals who may be threatening, disruptive or otherwise problematic," according to that group's website.

It could not be ascertained if Fenton was caring for Holmes under the threat-assessment program or under routine counseling she provided to students on campus.

Under Colorado law, mental health professionals cannot be held liable in civil suits for failing to predict a patient's violent behavior unless it involves a "serious threat of imminent physical violence against a specific person or persons." When such a threat is made, the mental health professional is required to take action, which may include notifying those targeted or a law enforcement agency.

Fenton could not immediately be reached by Reuters for comment, and a spokeswoman for the University of Colorado medical school declined to comment, citing restrictions under a gag order issued by the judge presiding over the case.

The university, where Holmes had been enrolled as a doctoral student of neuroscience, confirmed earlier this week that a suspicious package was delivered by mail on Monday and that it was "immediately investigated and handed over to authorities within hours."

Fox News has reported, citing an unnamed law enforcement source close to the investigation, that two packages were sent by Holmes to a psychiatrist on the faculty of the University of Colorado, and that one contained a notebook detailing the shooting scenario. According to Fox News, the notebook contained hand-drawn illustrations of stick figures shooting at other stick figures.

The defense motion accuses the government of leaking information to the media in defiance of a gag order, thereby jeopardizing Holmes' rights to due process and fair trial by an impartial jury. It says his lawyers will request a hearing to determine "appropriate sanctions for this misconduct."

Prosecutors, responding to the discovery motion, disputed various elements of media accounts as being erroneous, suggesting that anyone who had provided information to Fox News and other outlets lacked real knowledge of the case.

"These factual errors lead (the government) to believe ... that the media is getting information from hoaxers, fraudsters, or maybe from nobody at all by creating fake 'law enforcement sources' out of whole cloth," prosecutors said in their filing.

Formal charges against the suspect, who dyed his hair bright orange and was said by authorities to have referred to himself as the Joker - Batman's comic book archenemy - are expected to be filed in court on Monday.

The judge in the case, William Sylvester, set a hearing on the defense discovery motion to be held as part of Monday's proceedings. Sylvester also said he would consider a pleading by news media organizations to make public court documents the judge has sealed in the case.

Arrested within minutes of the shooting rampage at his car in the theater's parking lot, Holmes is being held in solitary confinement in the local jail.

In addition to charges stemming from one of the worst outbursts of U.S. gun violence in recent years, he is accused of wiring his apartment with enough explosives to have leveled the entire building if they had been detonated.

The apartment house was evacuated when the booby traps were discovered. But the explosives were later safely dismantled and removed by authorities, and Holmes' neighbors began returning to their homes on Wednesday night.

The latest disclosures about the suspect came to light as mourners attended the third funeral in as many days for one of the victims of the shooting rampage, this one for an 18-year-old high school graduate, Alexander J. "AJ" Boik, who was bound for art college in the fall.

In addition to Fenton's research on schizophrenia, she also has a background in physical medicine and had worked as a medical acupuncturist at a Colorado rehab center for several years before doing her residency in psychiatry, according to her resume on the University of Colorado website.

State records posted online show that she received a "letter of admonition" from the Colorado Board of Medical Examiners in 2004, though details of the rebuke could not be immediately accessed from the board's website.

The New York Times reported the admonition cited Fenton for prescribing various pills for her husband and other non-patients on several occasions — including the sleep aid Ambien, the allergy medication Claritin and the painkiller Vicodin — and for failing to properly document the prescriptions. According to the Times, the board noted in its letter that she was no longer writing prescriptions for non-patients.

[bigfoot]

Methinks that the perps attorneys will play the only card "they think" they have...the "nut card"... The voices..."the voices"...told him to do it!...LOL!...Unless he was a schizophrenic off his psychotropics...he's got problems...sociopathy and paranoid personality disorder, or any personalty disorder, won't qualify for "crazy"...that defense team must know that...

[Don Dresden]

[Albert Hidel]

George Gollin & James Holmes
"...Jimmy, do you like movies about gladiators?"