His mother didn’t doubt he was the shooter. Perhaps he’s been on legal prescription drugs like Ritalin all his life.
Hopefully that's not part of this article with the title "unassuming". I'll read it a bit later.
There’s this:
“Plastered across the back window was a sticker that said, “To Write Love On Her Arms,” the name of a nonprofit group that, according to its website, is dedicated to helping people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-usa-shooting-denver-profile-idUSBRE86J19H20120720
“He called the suspect a “super nice kid,” “kinda quiet” and “really smart.”
“He didn’t talk too much,” Torres said. “Friendly? No.”
“He was very quiet,” she said. “He was a nice guy when you did occasionally talk to him. But he was definitely more introverted.”
” Shortly before he dropped out, Holmes had taken a class on psychiatric disorders.
Fellow students described him as a recluse, and one said: “No one knew him; no one.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9416731/Batman-cinema-shooting-Under-the-radar-the-easy-going-PhD-student-with-no-friends.html
(they always say it is the quiet ones...)
After high school, Holmes received a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of California, Riverside, but could not find a job after returning to San Diego several years ago. For a year or so, he worked part-time at a McDonald’s, according to Tom Mai, who lives near the Holmes family in San DiegoRiverside in 2010 with a
bachelor’s degree in neuroscience,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-usa-shooting-denver-profile-idUSBRE86J19H20120720
“He didn’t seem like a troublemaker at all,” Kim said. “He just seemed like he wanted to get in and out, and go to college.”
Was he laid off or fired from McDonalds? He was collecting unemployment. He had bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and only could find McDonalds job and possibly fired/laid off from that...could be a little depressing.
I wonder if he only went back to college because of the work situation, he wanted out of his parents house, so he left to Colorado for his Ph.D?
...”His mother didn’t doubt he was the shooter. Perhaps he’s been on legal prescription drugs like Ritalin all his life”...
Could be.
Yes, I think he must be on Ritalin or something similar.
How ignorant!
Or maybe antidepressants. I've seen those things to weird things to peoples' personalities, and erode emotional depth, whether it be positive or negative emotions.
I'm sure there will be more facts emerging which will help place this insanity in some sort of context...