Aurora Shooting: E-mails Released by CU Show Holmes' Brief Romance with a Grad Student
ByIn latest development in Aurora shooting case, the emails released by the University of Colorado show that the suspect James Holmes had a brief romantic relationship with fellow graduate student.
The university released 2 CDs consisting around 3,800 emails Wednesday, from university's e-mail system concerning Aurora shooting suspect, James Holmes, at the behest of numerous media outlets.
Of those 3800 emails, 1500 were from Holmes' e-mail accounts and remaining emails make a reference to the former neuroscience graduate of the university in some way. But, many of the emails were heavily redacted and around 1,200 emails written by Holmes himself were not released, as the university did not want to get into privacy law violations due to the containment of student records in the emails.
The emails did not contain anything regarding the criminal or mental history of Holmes nor did it reveal anything extraordinary.
The fellow graduate student with whom the suspect had a brief relationship was not in the country during the shooting, emails show.
It was revealed in an email sent by the director of the Center for Computational Bioscience at CU, Larry Hunter, as a response to a colleague.
The mail reads: "Yeah, he was a grad student here, and, it turns out, had a brief romantic relationship with one of the grad students in my program last fall. She, fortunately, it turns out is in India right now. She knows, and is pretty freaked out."
Many emails exchanged between the faculty members trace the way in which the school came to realize that one of the drop-outs of the university was responsible for one of the horrific mass murders in the history of United States.
In addition, The Denver Post has reported, citing an anonymous source, that Lynne Fenton-the psychiatrist treating James Holmes-rejected an offer to put Holmes under a psychiatric hold after he expressed his fantasy of killing 'a lot of people.'
Denver Post reports:
"CU Police Officer Lynn Whitten asked Fenton whether she should apprehend Holmes and place him on a 72-hour psychiatric hold, The Post's source said. Fenton, who has the authority to ask for a hold, rejected the idea, according to the source."
After six weeks of expressing his desire, he did carry out his fantasy by killing 12 and injuring 58 who were attending the Denver premiere of new batman movie.
Holmes has been charged with multiple counts of first degree murder and attempted murder counts. Preliminary hearing for the charges begins Jan.7. A motions hearing is set on Monday.