Posted on 07/20/2012 10:07:42 PM PDT by Saije
"I am not a 24-year-old gun-slinging killer from Aurora," James P. Holmes wrote on Facebook Friday morning. Holmes is a Denver man who shares first and last names with the suspect in the deadly shooting that took place at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie, just hours before, James Eagan Holmes.
As the investigation got under way in the shooting at the "The Dark Knight Rises" premiere, in which 70 members of the estimated 300-seat crowd were killed or injured, those looking for clues to make sense of it all went online for a digital footprint for the suspect - to no avail.
It appears that the suspect Holmes is not on any social networks - at least not under his legal name. The picture of Holmes that has been painted is not much different than a typical, perhaps disenchanted college student.
...The reasons why Holmes would get dressed in all black, a ballistic helmet and tactical gloves and walk into that AMC Theater early Friday morning and open fire on innocent people remain a mystery.
If he was on Facebook, we might know what's been on his mind, what he had for dinner or how he spent the Fourth of July, offering insight into his mental state ahead of the events, but Holmes is not found on that social network, or Twitter. He doesn't have a website or blog. Unconfirmed reports late Friday allege that he may have been on the dating site AdultFriendFinder.com, not a forum most would choose to connect with friends, family or the greater public.
The fact that Holmes is not online perplexed denizens of the Internet throughout the day, invoking some to message people with similar names, create fake Facebook profiles and even write articles pondering why Holmes...presented no presence online.
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Wonder if they drug tested him that night?
Perhaps I should have said until recently. He had been an honors student at UC Riverside. I understand he was in the process of withdrawing from the Ph.D. program in Colorado but so far the university hasnt given much detail as to what that meant was it truly voluntary?
I had a Facebook account, deleted the bugger the best I could.
Damm thing tracks you everywhere.
The guy sounds like a recent convert to the OWS Black Bloc, of which some will say is the brainchild of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.
Yes - he also took many AP courses in high school and apparently passed with flying colors and was granted multiple merit scholarships. It sounds like he was above average in intelligence at an earlier time!
I’ve never had a Facebook account. I’m online in a bunch of places, but never under my real name. I like being free to express controversial, politically-incorrect opinions without real-world harassment.
Has anyone noticed that there is little/no information yet about his family? I am curious if he has siblings, what his parents do for a living, etc. etc.
Lucky guy. Now everybody wants to friend him on Fakebook, everybody wants to know about his family friends siblings, you can bet that marriage proposals will flow to him like an Amazon river. What’s wrong with use people? Tabloid much?
Some people think they can hide their identity because they are on Facebook under a false name and with a fake picture. They forget that their set of friends can uniquely identify them.
Somebody is going to be searching for the facebook identities of his relatives, co-workers, and classmates and looking for commonality. Probably on LinkedIn and similar sites too.
It’s often recommended that aspiring professionals steer clear of social networking as prospective employees can track that and might find something to discredit you.
His father, Robert M. Holmes, sr. is or was employed with FICO, having a background in neuroscience and a string of impressive degrees. His mother, Arlene Rosemary (no maiden name provided thus far) Holmes remains something of a cipher, little info on her. No info onmthe “Junior” implied by the “Senior,” eirher. Family is described as simply “churchgoing,” very vague.
Didn’t Anders Breivik spend an enormous amount of time playing online role playing games?
If Facebook serves no useful purpose, then any type of role playing game serves no purpose either.
The trouble with a FB account is it basically invites you to undress in public. Then, at the worst possible time, your worst enemy is going to be able to use something you’ve posted against you. I have one so I can access FB but have posted nothing about myself on it and do not intend to do so.
He was a Phi Beta Kappa in undergrad and one of the top students in high school.
Something went bad in his head the last year for sure.
Indeed. Nor will I. Nor Twitter, MySpace or any of the other ridiculaous, narcisisstic social media sites.
I know for a fact that no one cares what inane thoughts cross my mind every moment of the day and I certainly don't care about anyone else's.
Very bright something doesn’t add up why he stumbled recently.
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