Who is James Holmes and why should you care? Hes the 24-year-old guy in Colorado who allegedly shot and killed 12 people in a movie theater more than a month ago, and left 58 wounded.
News media have been desperately trying to piece together information about Mr. Holmes life, because he had so little of a digital footprint. And because the neuroscience graduate program he attended at the University of Colorado, Denver has been tight-lipped about his short time there.
So theNew York Timesdid some good old-fashioned reporting, digging into his friends, social life, and even talking to a few of his professors to cobble together a glimpse of the life and personality of James Holmes.
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What emerges is a list of traits that while they could be associated with a mass-murderer could just as easily be associated with any introspective, quiet person in America. And thats what makes such arm-chair psychologist profiling especially dangerous.
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The overwhelming sense of the person who is James Holmes that you get from the Times profile is a very smart but very shy and somewhat awkward first-year graduate student. Interviews with people who knew or had contact with him before the attack tell a story of a man struggling with a mental illness and losing his footing, according to the Times story.
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