The 25-year-old was being seen by a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado before the attack on a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado, that killed 12 people and injured 70.
That psychiatrist, Dr Lynne Fenton, warned university police that her client had homicidal thoughts, that he had threatened her and that he posed a danger to the public.
Dr Fenton complied with her legal requirement to report the potential threat in June, the month before the attack.
But in the days after the shooting, police at the University of Colorado said they had never made contact with Holmes, according to a search warrant affidavit made public last month.
The police don’t bother to investigate potential mass murderers, but if he was a returning vet or had a Ron Paul bumper sticker on his car – DHS would have been all over his case.
Or a follower of this blog.
“…Lawyers for the suspect in the Colorado cinema shootings have said James Holmes will plead not guilty by reason of insanity…”
Makes the jury selection a little harder – trying to find 12 sane, drug-free people in the state of Colorado able to pass reasoned judgement on an insane, drug-addled loser.