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Psychiatrist Called Threat Team About Aurora Shooting Suspect James Holmes
abcnews ^ | Aug. 1, 2012 | mark greenblatt

Posted on 08/01/2012 11:21:12 PM PDT by dennisw

James Holmes came to the attention of the threat assessment committee at the University of Colorado but no further action was taken because he left the school more than a month before the attack that killed 12 and injured 58, sources told ABC News.

ABC News has learned that Dr. Lynne Fenton, the psychiatrist who was treating Holmes, 24, at the school, was also a key member of the university's threat assessment team. The group of experts were responsible for protecting the school from potentially violent students.

KMGH-TV, ABC News' affiliate in Denver, reported exclusively that, according to sources, by early June, Fenton had informed other members of the team about her concerns regarding Holmes.

But on June 10 -- three days after Holmes bought an assault weapon and added it to his already growing arsenal -- he suddenly told the university that he was dropping out of the neurosciences doctoral program with no explanation.

KMGH-TV reported last week that he'd purchased the weapon hours after failing a key oral exam.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aurora; banglist; holmes; jamesholmes; psychiatry
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To: hoosiermama
Thanks for the information. Is this a nation wide program?

As far as I know it is available in all 57 states (/sarc), Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

61 posted on 08/02/2012 6:29:31 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Snakes have slit eyes


62 posted on 08/02/2012 6:50:28 AM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: whitey righty

In other words, “He’s not at the school any more, so it’s not our problem.” Nice.


That’s nuts. Did they not consider the possibility that if he went off that he may come back onto campus and unload on students and teachers a la VA Tech?


63 posted on 08/02/2012 7:15:56 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: Valpal1
Do you have a method for discovering and preventing thought-crime?
64 posted on 08/02/2012 7:19:45 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: Eye of Unk
"Begs to question this, where is Holmes father and who is he?"

I don't know who his father is, but I saw a photo on TMZ of his arriving in CO on 7/20. It was a distant shot so it is difficult to identify him except that he's an older man. He did show up though.

65 posted on 08/02/2012 7:43:59 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: kabumpo

Mentally ill parents can have normal children just like normal parents can have mentally ill children.

Escaping a disturbed family doesn’t prove that mental illness is not biologically based.


66 posted on 08/02/2012 8:10:44 AM PDT by Valpal1
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To: wolfman23601
Captain Hindsight is all over this thread.
67 posted on 08/02/2012 8:24:37 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ETL

I’ve heard it said that psychology majors sometimes go into that profession just to figure out what is wrong with themselves.


68 posted on 08/02/2012 8:48:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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To: floralamiss
I did not refer to the “shape of her eyes” but of her squinting when the picture was taken and the evil that shines through the slits that she is looking through. Some of you are just too sensitive and too quick to read your own prejudices into someone elses words. If you read this thread... I am not the only one that makes mention of her eyes and the demon within this woman.

LLS

69 posted on 08/02/2012 8:52:07 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: hoosiermama

You’re right. We don’t have a mental health system anymore.

I know people who used to work in social work. They quit because they felt their lives were in danger.


70 posted on 08/02/2012 8:54:07 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: dennisw

Yes they do but I think this woman was just squinting... no matter... the demon within cannot hide from those of us that see.

LLS


71 posted on 08/02/2012 8:55:42 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: meadsjn

You suggesting a “Flatliners” type of scenario? Never thought about that possiblity but who knows very well could be. Although maybe one day, since we actually captured this animal alive he may tell his story.


72 posted on 08/02/2012 8:57:22 AM PDT by eak3
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To: a fool in paradise
I’ve heard it said that psychology majors sometimes go into that profession just to figure out what is wrong with themselves.

Very true. But, for some reason, lots of these lunatics seem to lean strongly to the left.

73 posted on 08/02/2012 8:59:11 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Wow.


74 posted on 08/02/2012 9:36:17 AM PDT by floralamiss
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To: Valpal1
"Mentally ill parents can have normal children just like normal parents can have mentally ill children."

True.

According to some articles, The shooter was adopted. So there's no blood relationship between and the parents, just love.

75 posted on 08/02/2012 9:46:28 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: LibLieSlayer

Boy. Maybe all investigative agencies should hire you to sit in front of a PC all day and “screen” our ID and drivers license photos. Since you can see inside our souls, you could “weed out” all evil doers and minions of Satan with those peepers of yours. :-)


76 posted on 08/02/2012 9:51:29 AM PDT by floralamiss
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To: dennisw
Cadres of Gov’t apparatchiks are salivating at the overtime and millions in salaries paid to deal with this mass murderer in the court and prison system. Not to mention all the lawyers and shrinks who do not get Gov’t paychecks but might as well by the way they are parasitically clamped onto the Judicial systems of which there are countless. State, county, Federale etc etc etc, ad nauseam

In 1857, the trial would have been over a week ago, and they'd be having to cut his ripening corpse down from the gallows today because of the smell...

77 posted on 08/02/2012 9:54:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Biggirl
This was going beyond mental illness. This was outright demonic possesion

It's been figured out that what people used to call demonic possession in Medieval times is actually mental illness.

Welcome to the 21th century.

78 posted on 08/02/2012 9:56:54 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: dennisw

Is it my imagination, or does this “discovery” feel like a drip in a managed PR campaign?


79 posted on 08/02/2012 9:56:54 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: Eye of Unk
Begs to question this, where is Holmes father and who is he?

Here is Robert Holmes LinkedIn page:
Robert Holmes

He has a PhD in Statistics and is Senior Lead Scientist with FICO (Fair Isaac) the giant credit rating company. Very accomplished and successful. Has patents on how to prevent credit fraud.

80 posted on 08/02/2012 10:01:51 AM PDT by Strategerist
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