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I have been trying to keep up with dates that are known before the shooting spree.
As a recap of what I have so far. Thanks to all the Websleuths members that posted and helped with the timeline and links. I did NOT find these items all by myself ..so thanks.
I checked and made sure all links worked this morning before posting. 8-13-2012
If anybody wants to add to this timeline (or correct the timeline) You are more than welcome to copy it, then add your own stuff.
2006
2006 - Graduates Westview High in Carmel Valley - San Diego, Calif.
Summer 2006: summer internship at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. Calif.
Summer 2006: (This video at end of the Salk internship) The video shows Holmes at Miramar College in San Diego ... discussing "temporal illusions." Holmes had to make a presentation to his fellow interns about the work. A video, widely circulated online since the shooting
Dec 2006-June 2007: Holmes list on his resume that he was a lab assistant at UCR-Dept of Chemistry.
Misc. Times
He lived on campus from October 2007 to February 2008, and moved to an apartment at Iowa and University avenues until he graduated in 2010. He also had roommates during this time:
He was a lab assistant from Dec 2007 to Sept. 2009, Holmes said he did microscopic work with the muscle of mice, and neuro-mapping of the Zebra finch, and built slides of the hummingbird muscles at UCR in the departments of chemistry and cellular biology and neuroscience.
2008
Summer 2008: He worked as a counselor at a camp for underprivileged kids , Camp Max Straus
2010
Spring 2010 - Graduates w/ honors from Univ. of Calif. Riverside (UCR) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience. Holmes was a member of several honors societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key.
Spring 2010: Although Mr. Holmes graduated with the highest honors, he didn't attend commencement ceremonies, school officials said.
October 25, JH submitted his resume to The Univ. Of Illinois-Champaign campus. ( I used a lot of these dates on his resume to backup some of the dates on this timeline) He also paid $70 with a credit card for application fees. Also in the document dump from UIUC that they released, it also list that JH had applied to Iowa, Alabama, and Colorado (it was on the notebook paper that somebody was keeping during his visit to UIUC)
2011
March 21: He was accepted into UNIV of Illinois by email, and on March 22, JH turned the offer down by email.
June 2011: He enrolled in the Ph.D. neuroscience program at the University of Colorado-Denver
October 2011: The only previous police record for Holmes is a speeding ticket
Dec 2011: Duong last saw Holmes in December when they met for dinner in Los Angeles and saw a movie together. His friend seemed fine, he told the newspaper.
2012
April 2012 (OR April 2011) - Apartment application turned down. Instead Holmes ended up renting a different apartment in another building just a few hundred yards away. (Actually, It could have been April of 2011)
May 8 - presentation of RNA Biomarker paper (official not sure he actually did the report)
May 22 at Gander Mountain in Aurora, JH bought one of two Glocks.
May 28, six days after purchasing the Glock, Holmes purchased the shotgun used in the shootings from Bass Pro Shops in Denver
June 7, Holmes bought the AR-15 assault rifle rifle used in the attacks at a Gander Mountain store in Thornton, Colo
June 7, he took his test and failed
First 10 days of June....Univer. was warned.
June 10, he dropped out.
June 25..applied for a range membership.
July 1....pink hair and had scope installed.
July 2 -- ordered TacticalGear purchases with 2 day ups shipping
No Exact Date.. Match.com account. (The profile was created before early Friday morning, July 20, was all Match.com would confirm)
July 5...set up Adult Finders account.
July 6, Holmes returned to the Bass Pro Shops store in Denver and bought the other Glock pistol.
July 9, JH stopped by Zephyr Bar, where he talked with Virginia Rosetta Jones, a neighbor from across the street who would often see him at the bar. They shared a beer and chatted (this could be untrue, but there are several interviews with this person but there are also people that dispute this)
No Exact Date: Holmes bought a ticket to the midnight showing of Batman
July 19th-20 .... 11:30-1 am (estimate) ....Techno Music blaring from JH's apartment.
July 20, 2012: 12.05am MDT: Midnight showing of Dark Knight Rises started at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
GUNS: http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-colorado-shooting-guns-semi-automatic-weapon/
RANGE MEMBERSHIP: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/2...un-range-application-drew-red-flag-for-owner/
PINK HAIR AND SCOPE INSTALLED: http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=278850
ADULT FINDERS WEB SITE SET UP: http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/21/james-holmes-colorado-shooting-sex-profile-website/
TECHO MUSIC BLARING: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...th-Ledger.html
UNIV WARNED: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...t-8001914.html
NOTEBOOK SENT: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1731051.html
TATICAL GEAR: http://tacticalgear.com/news/colorado-shooting/
ENROLLED AT UOC :http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1689794.html
SPEEDING TICKET: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...ing-guns-dropping-out-of-graduate-school?lite
RNA: http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5204839
GRADUATES HS: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1688996.html
GRADUATES UOCAL: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/20...e-out-nowhere/
APT APP TURNED DOWN: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/21/aurora-woman-holmes-apartment?INTCMP=SRCH
HIGH SCHOOL VIDEO: http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/22/colorado-shooting-james-holmes-video-high-school/
MATCH.COM: http://www.denverpost.com/theatersh...-shooting-holmes-match-profile-verified-cites
BOUGHT TICKET: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_21120980/ap-source-suspect-bought-ticket-movie
SALK: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest...pect-James-Holmes-was-an-unusually-bad-intern
CAMP: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/24/nation/la-na-colorado-shooter-profile-20120724
DIDNT ATTEND GRADUATION: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443295404577543400613112424.html
JHs FRIEND HAD DINNER WITH HIM: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/07/22/cu-investigating-suspect-james-holmes-deliveries/
TIMES HE LIVED ON CAMPUS AND OFF 2007-2010 AND LAB ASSISANT: http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaki...nraveling-the-mystery-of-shooting-suspect.ece
ENROLLED AT UCR: http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-...at-uc-riverside-holmes-led-enigmatic-life.ece
SHARED A BEER with Neighbor and had roommates in college:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443295404577543400613112424.html
Resume and Application to UNIV of Ill and EMAILS ( I got a lot of dates from this) : http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/holmes_application.pdf
As a recap of what I have so far. Thanks to all the Websleuths members that posted and helped with the timeline and links. I did NOT find these items all by myself ..so thanks.
I checked and made sure all links worked this morning before posting. 8-13-2012
If anybody wants to add to this timeline (or correct the timeline) You are more than welcome to copy it, then add your own stuff.
2006
2006 - Graduates Westview High in Carmel Valley - San Diego, Calif.
Summer 2006: summer internship at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. Calif.
Summer 2006: (This video at end of the Salk internship) The video shows Holmes at Miramar College in San Diego ... discussing "temporal illusions." Holmes had to make a presentation to his fellow interns about the work. A video, widely circulated online since the shooting
Dec 2006-June 2007: Holmes list on his resume that he was a lab assistant at UCR-Dept of Chemistry.
Misc. Times
He lived on campus from October 2007 to February 2008, and moved to an apartment at Iowa and University avenues until he graduated in 2010. He also had roommates during this time:
He was a lab assistant from Dec 2007 to Sept. 2009, Holmes said he did microscopic work with the muscle of mice, and neuro-mapping of the Zebra finch, and built slides of the hummingbird muscles at UCR in the departments of chemistry and cellular biology and neuroscience.
2008
Summer 2008: He worked as a counselor at a camp for underprivileged kids , Camp Max Straus
2010
Spring 2010 - Graduates w/ honors from Univ. of Calif. Riverside (UCR) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience. Holmes was a member of several honors societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key.
Spring 2010: Although Mr. Holmes graduated with the highest honors, he didn't attend commencement ceremonies, school officials said.
October 25, JH submitted his resume to The Univ. Of Illinois-Champaign campus. ( I used a lot of these dates on his resume to backup some of the dates on this timeline) He also paid $70 with a credit card for application fees. Also in the document dump from UIUC that they released, it also list that JH had applied to Iowa, Alabama, and Colorado (it was on the notebook paper that somebody was keeping during his visit to UIUC)
2011
March 21: He was accepted into UNIV of Illinois by email, and on March 22, JH turned the offer down by email.
June 2011: He enrolled in the Ph.D. neuroscience program at the University of Colorado-Denver
October 2011: The only previous police record for Holmes is a speeding ticket
Dec 2011: Duong last saw Holmes in December when they met for dinner in Los Angeles and saw a movie together. His friend seemed fine, he told the newspaper.
2012
April 2012 (OR April 2011) - Apartment application turned down. Instead Holmes ended up renting a different apartment in another building just a few hundred yards away. (Actually, It could have been April of 2011)
May 8 - presentation of RNA Biomarker paper (official not sure he actually did the report)
May 22 at Gander Mountain in Aurora, JH bought one of two Glocks.
May 28, six days after purchasing the Glock, Holmes purchased the shotgun used in the shootings from Bass Pro Shops in Denver
June 7, Holmes bought the AR-15 assault rifle rifle used in the attacks at a Gander Mountain store in Thornton, Colo
June 7, he took his test and failed
First 10 days of June....Univer. was warned.
June 10, he dropped out.
June 25..applied for a range membership.
July 1....pink hair and had scope installed.
July 2 -- ordered TacticalGear purchases with 2 day ups shipping
No Exact Date.. Match.com account. (The profile was created before early Friday morning, July 20, was all Match.com would confirm)
July 5...set up Adult Finders account.
July 6, Holmes returned to the Bass Pro Shops store in Denver and bought the other Glock pistol.
July 9, JH stopped by Zephyr Bar, where he talked with Virginia Rosetta Jones, a neighbor from across the street who would often see him at the bar. They shared a beer and chatted (this could be untrue, but there are several interviews with this person but there are also people that dispute this)
No Exact Date: Holmes bought a ticket to the midnight showing of Batman
July 19th-20 .... 11:30-1 am (estimate) ....Techno Music blaring from JH's apartment.
July 20, 2012: 12.05am MDT: Midnight showing of Dark Knight Rises started at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
GUNS: http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-colorado-shooting-guns-semi-automatic-weapon/
RANGE MEMBERSHIP: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/2...un-range-application-drew-red-flag-for-owner/
PINK HAIR AND SCOPE INSTALLED: http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=278850
ADULT FINDERS WEB SITE SET UP: http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/21/james-holmes-colorado-shooting-sex-profile-website/
TECHO MUSIC BLARING: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...th-Ledger.html
UNIV WARNED: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...t-8001914.html
NOTEBOOK SENT: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1731051.html
TATICAL GEAR: http://tacticalgear.com/news/colorado-shooting/
ENROLLED AT UOC :http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1689794.html
SPEEDING TICKET: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...ing-guns-dropping-out-of-graduate-school?lite
RNA: http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5204839
GRADUATES HS: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1688996.html
GRADUATES UOCAL: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/20...e-out-nowhere/
APT APP TURNED DOWN: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/21/aurora-woman-holmes-apartment?INTCMP=SRCH
HIGH SCHOOL VIDEO: http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/22/colorado-shooting-james-holmes-video-high-school/
MATCH.COM: http://www.denverpost.com/theatersh...-shooting-holmes-match-profile-verified-cites
BOUGHT TICKET: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_21120980/ap-source-suspect-bought-ticket-movie
SALK: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest...pect-James-Holmes-was-an-unusually-bad-intern
CAMP: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/24/nation/la-na-colorado-shooter-profile-20120724
DIDNT ATTEND GRADUATION: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443295404577543400613112424.html
JHs FRIEND HAD DINNER WITH HIM: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/07/22/cu-investigating-suspect-james-holmes-deliveries/
TIMES HE LIVED ON CAMPUS AND OFF 2007-2010 AND LAB ASSISANT: http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaki...nraveling-the-mystery-of-shooting-suspect.ece
ENROLLED AT UCR: http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-...at-uc-riverside-holmes-led-enigmatic-life.ece
SHARED A BEER with Neighbor and had roommates in college:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443295404577543400613112424.html
Resume and Application to UNIV of Ill and EMAILS ( I got a lot of dates from this) : http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/holmes_application.pdf