Quiet, unassuming San Diegan accused of mass murder

San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 7/20/2012 | Peter Rowe and John Wilkens

[South40]

James Holmes, a 2006 Westview High graduate, accused of killing, wounding 70 in Colorado theater

He was as quiet and unassuming as the middle-class North County neighborhood where he grew up. Before he was arrested after a deadly shooting spree in a Colorado movie theater, James Eagan Holmes was known as a loner — shy, smart, a bit odd.

But not, people thought, dangerous.

“We were honors students — that always has a little bit of a stigma of being weird, right?” said Jessica Cade, who knew Holmes when they were both UC Riverside undergraduates. “But I never would have thought he would do something like this, never considered him to be a ‘lunatic’ or ‘deranged’ like the news is calling him.”

[Erik Latranyi]

Where does an unemployed former McDonalds worker come up with the cash to outfit himself like a one man SWAT team? That’s another loose thread in the narrative.

He was on unemployment, I believe.

He was an anarchist. He may have been given funds to do this.

[PapaBear3625]

Wouldn't he need to first complete a Master's degree before entering a PhD program?

No. You start your PhD after your BS. You go for your MS if you don't plan on going for your PhD. In some programs, you get your MS along the way, or get an MS as a consolation prize if you don't get to complete the PhD.

[RegulatorCountry]

You’re very insistent upon a connection that is tenuous at present. Make your case providing specifics, please. I have the sense myself that there is more than meets the eye here, but it’s far from established, as to just what that might be.

[Erik Latranyi]

First, a little background on the PI:

Private Detective Bill Warner is a member of the FBI Partner InfraGard and has worked as a Confidential Informant (CI) for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Secret Service on smuggled stolen cars scam and money laundering cases.

Occupy Wall Street Names Colorado Massacre Shooter James Holmes as Occupy Black Bloc Member

Report: Batman Shooter Is Black Bloc #Occupier

[MileHi]

MSM reported he had 6000 rounds of ammo in his apartment. The same time they reported that they had not even entered his apartment.

The police chief said he had purchased 3000 rds of .223, 3000 rds of .40 and 300 rds of 12 ga on the internet recently. (He said it like that was a bad thing)

[Erik Latranyi]

You’re very insistent upon a connection that is tenuous at present. Make your case providing specifics, please. I have the sense myself that there is more than meets the eye here, but it’s far from established, as to just what that might be.

See my post #64. OWS, themselves, identified him as a member of Occupy Black Bloc.

[nascarnation]

OK the guy knows how to put up a blog and vid with a lot of provocative images but little in the way of facts.

That’s my view of it.

[MileHi]

There is a bigger 'scourge' today and that is Nanny Staters who wish to impose their notion of how things should be on others.

Quite right.

Thanks

[catfur]

(He said it like that was a bad thing)
Should’nt have been drinking coffee when I read this.

[aomagrat]

Obama is all set to sigh the UN gun ban treaty and then this happens. Coincidence?

[aomagrat]

Obama is all set to sign the UN gun ban treaty and then this happens. Coincidence?

[MileHi]

He purchased 4 firearms, 6300 rds of ammo and the tac gear, presumably in the last 3 months. That looks like +/- $2000 per month beyond normal expenses. That is pretty good cash flow, or he ran up his plastic.

[rurgan]

Obama is all set to sign the UN gun ban treaty and then this happens. Coincidence?

The media , Obama , and UN are trying to take our right to bear arms away.These same Marxists are also planning to put the UN in control of the Internet( google it)

[MileHi]

Chiefy wanted to make an editorial comment so bad he could spit. Instead, he repeated “purchased on the internet” 10 or 12 times when he reported on the ammo.

Aurora gummint is definitely progressive.

[Vaduz]

You may be right but I wonder if peope with high IQ’s weave I and out of madness?.

[libstripper]

I don’t know about the question of people with really high IQs. However, I do know of a suicide in my own family that almost fit this pattern. The individual, to whom I will give the pseudonym of “Joe” for this discussion, suffered a severe brain injury in an auto accident when he was about 12 and appeared to recover from it. Indeed, he got into the IT industry when he was inis 40’s and was doing so well he received a significant promotion and was viewed as a “stellar” performer. Nobody outside the family ever knew about his brain injury. Over Christmas of 2010-2011 he went into a manic high that I will not describe further, other than to say it showed he had something seriously wrong. Come summer of 2011 his roller coaster dropped him into a profoundly depressed low. At that point he meticulously planned and committed a suicide.

All of that, with the carefully concealed illness of a highly intelligent man and the functionally rational planning of the final act, is eerily similar to what appears to have happened in Denver.

[Vaduz]

Sorry to hear about the family member.Hope that some day they can find a concealed illness before it’s to late.

So many things in the world can and will kill us,life is a struggle and some times we forget that.

[Vaduz]

Sorry to hear about the family member.Hope that some day they can find a concealed illness before it’s to late.

So many things in the world can and will kill us,life is a struggle and some times we forget that.

[libstripper]

That’s exactly why my betting about Holmes is that he had a concealed mental illness, well known to his parents, that became suddenly and catastrophically apparent.

[Texas Songwriter]

Somtin ain’t right with that boy, look at those ears.

Alien-human hybrid???????????