More about the gunman:
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The suspected Colorado movie mass murderer was a loner and graduate school dropout who dyed his dark hair red in homage to Batman’s arch-nemesis the Joker.
Demented gunman James Holmes declared “he was the Joker, enemy of Batman” after his arrest for the killing spree during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Returns,” said NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Holmes, 24, was a recluse who described himself last year as “quiet and easy-going” on a rental application.
But he withdrew abruptly last month from a Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado-Denver graduate school, spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said Friday.
She could not say what prompted the decision just weeks before the handsome, dark-haired Holmes reportedly snapped, killing a dozen people and wounding at least 50 others.
The suspect, who came to Colorado from southern California, lived in a third-floor apartment in the Denver suburb of North Aurora — about four miles from the theater where the killings occurred.
Aurora Police respond to the Century 16 movie theatre early Friday morning, July 20, 2012. Police chief Dan Oates said at least 12 dead and another 59 injured in the Colorado theater shooting.
Neighbors told The Denver Post that Holmes was a reclusive type who ignored other residents when they said hello — even though the building was reserved for medical school colleagues and staff.
“No one knew him,” one neighbor told the newspaper. “No one.”
He booby-trapped Apartment 10 before making the drive to the crowded theater filled with a midnight crowd for “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Holmes also left the same song playing on repeat inside his home, where a poster of Will Ferrell from the movie “Anchorman” hung in the kitchen.
In an online rental application last year, Holmes described himself as a “quiet and easy-going medical student,” the Post reported. He was reportedly seeking his Ph.D. in neuroscience.
Holmes graduated from the University of California-Riverside in spring 2010 with a neuroscience degree, the school confirmed.
Holmes, who wore a gas mask during his attack, was not a military veteran and had no ties to any terrorist groups, officials said.
In order to protect the guards, Holmes is now being forced to wear a face mask because he has been allegedly spitting (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/james-holmes-spits-guards-jail_n_1701540.html) at them.
Seriously? I'm assuming they think they can get teh aids ::)
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