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littlewolf

(3,813 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 01:23 PM Jul 2012

More on Mr. Holmes PhD. student

http://abcnews.go.com/US/aurora-colo-batman-shooter-james-holmes-phd-student/story?id=16817842#.UAmSka4TVOQ

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The suspected "lone-wolf" shooter of the Batman movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., earlier today has been identified as Ph.D. student James Holmes, who recently withdrew from his neuroscience studies at the University of Colorado before shooting up "The Dark Knight Rises" screening.
Holmes, 24, moved to Aurora to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado medical center, living just blocks from the hospital in an apartment that is now laced with explosives and being searched by HazMat teams.

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Holmes was caught by police in the parking lot of the movie theater shortly after the shooting still dressed in his riot gear, an outfit eerily similar to a villain in "The Dark Knight Rises." He warned police that his Aurora apartment was booby-trapped, leading police to evacuate the apartment complex. They were working this morning to gain entry to and diffuse the apartment, which they said seems to be "elaborately" rigged with explosives.
"The pictures we have from inside the apartment are pretty disturbing considering how elaborate the apartment is booby trapped," police said outside of the apartment complex today. The "flammable and explosive" materials could have blown up Holmes' apartment building and the ones near it, police said.

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More on Mr. Holmes PhD. student (Original Post) littlewolf Jul 2012 OP
I want to know what he was studying Duer 157099 Jul 2012 #1
Other threads here say he was in Neuroscience. BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #2
Not really Duer 157099 Jul 2012 #6
Doctoral program JanMichael Jul 2012 #3
dealing with RNA, I am wondering if he accidentally exposed himself to something? LiberalArkie Jul 2012 #5
Check this thread malaise Jul 2012 #4

JanMichael

(24,846 posts)
3. Doctoral program
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 01:35 PM
Jul 2012

neuroscience. PhD student...first year, I think. Not anywhere close to working on his dissertation.

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