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DENVER -- The psychiatrist treating accused theater killer James Holmes called the University of Colorado police department six weeks before the shooting, asking for a background check, sources told CALL7 Investigators.
People dont get it. The media dont get it and they dont want to get it. Billions of dollars are riding on the drugs Dr. Lynne Fenton may have prescribed to her patient, James Holmes, the accused Batman shooter.
And when billions of dollars in potentially lost revenue are hanging in the balance, the interested parties take action. Theyre serious about their money. They dont screw around.
You see, if James Holmes was, for example, taking Prozac, all of a sudden no one wants to take it. If doctors prescribe it to patients, the patients say, Hey, wasnt this the drug that nutcase took before he killed all those people in the theater?
DENVER (Reuters) - Attorneys for 20 news organizations will be in a Colorado courtroom on Thursday to argue that documents detailing the murder case against accused movie theater gunman James Holmes should be unsealed by a judge and open to the public.
At a July 20 press conference Aurora police Chief Dan Oates said investigators were confident that James Holmes acted alone in the largest mass shooting in U.S. history by casualties and that authorities were "not looking for any other suspects."
But doubters are citing official evidence to question that Holmes was the only shooter, or a shooter at all.
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(CNN) -- Hours before Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes faced another court hearing, his lawyers Thursday asked the presiding judge to reject a request by media organizations, including CNN, to unseal the full court record in the case.
Holmes' lawyers also called Thursday for a court website to stop listing publicly available documents in the case.
"We as a defense team cannot begin to examine the nature or depth of Mr. Holmes' mental illness until we recieve full disclosure," said defense attorney Daniel King.
Holmes' public defender, in a hearing on media access to court files in the case, repeatedly made references to his client's unspecified mental illness, giving the first clear sign that Holmes' lawyers might be considering an insanity defense.
"He tried to get help with his mental illness," said of his client, a 24-year-old former neuroscience graduate student at the University of Colorado who faces 24 counts of first-degree murder and 116 counts of attempted murder.
Now, three weeks after losing her boyfriend, Young is speaking out for the first time to "Nightline" about warning signs the University of Colorado may have missed. Reportedly, the psychiatrist who was treating Holmes expressed concerns about his behavior to others nearly six weeks before the shooting.
a serious move that is protected under Colorado law when psychiatrists are aware of an imminent threat that their patient might cause harm to others.
A university spokesperson declined to comment on how university police may have responded to Fentons concerns, citing a gag order preventing comment on the investigation.
The University of Colorado is investigating its staff's communication with James Holmes, a former graduate student at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, in the months leading up to a mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater.
Concerns about Holmes reportedly surfaced in early June. However, the Ph.D. candidate quit the doctoral program June 10 -- three days after failing an important oral exam. Reports now confirm that he bought an assault rifle right after the exam.
The University of Illinois released documents from Holmes' application process to become a neuroscience graduate student at the school, complete with a personal statement and a photograph of Holmes in sunglasses pointing a strand of hay at a llama.
"Those who met you ... during your interview visit felt that your personal and professional qualities are truly outstanding and that you will be an excellent match for our program," said the Illinois acceptance letter from professor J. Lee Beverly .
Holmes' application reveals his grade-point average from the University of California at Riverside was 3.94 on a 4.0 scale, that he was Phi Betta Kappa member and his GRE verbal score was in the 98th percentile and quantitative score was in the 94 percentile. His analytical writing score was in the 45 percentile.
Joanne Southard, who is the manager of the Fitz Apartments, along with her son and two grand children are among the evacuees.
"The kids keep asking me where we're going to be sleeping," Southard told 9NEWS. "I tell them we're going to be sleeping on the floor."
Southard is frustrated as she tries to find a new permanent home for her family, more so, she doesn't understand why someone would set the fire.
"No one can ever give me an answer as to why anybody would be that mean to trap all of us - they didn't just block us in. They trapped us in," Southard said.
Southard, the maintenance manager (I think husband of Joanne), said he also oversees security video for the buildings.
"Last night it caught every minute of it that was going on out here. The cameras in between buildings caught it all," said Southard.
Southard said he turned that video over to Aurora arson investigators.
Investigators told Kost that they obtained security video from the apartment building and nearby businesses.
POI lives in nearby building:A tenant of the building has been interviewed by police and is considered a person of interest. Residents in the building are being asked for information about their dealings with the man who lived in The Fitz apartment complex for two years.
Sources familiar with the investigation told Hernandez the person of interest is a tenant in the apartment building next to the four-story building that burned...A tenant told Hernandez that investigators have placed a red evidence seal on the door of an apartment unit where the person of interest lives.
And that task is even more challenging in Colorado, where the burden falls to prosecutors to prove a defendant's sanity at the time of the crime.
DENVER -- The man accused of opening fire in a suburban Denver movie theater had been an excellent student who left an impression good enough for acceptance to a competitive neuroscience program at the University of Illinois.