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http://abcnews.go.com/US/aurora-colo-batman-shooter-james-holmes-phd-student/story?id=16817842#.UAmSka4TVOQsnip
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
dealing with RNA, I am wondering if he accidentally exposed himself to something?
LiberalArkie
Jul 2012
#5
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)1. I want to know what he was studying
and what his fellow students have to say about him.
BumRushDaShow
(127,302 posts)2. Other threads here say he was in Neuroscience.
Ironic, eh?
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)6. Not really
That's my field and I deal daily with students at all levels.
But yes I get your point.
JanMichael
(24,846 posts)3. Doctoral program
neuroscience. PhD student...first year, I think. Not anywhere close to working on his dissertation.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)5. dealing with RNA, I am wondering if he accidentally exposed himself to something?
malaise
(267,809 posts)4. Check this thread