Massacre Suspect Not Talking
University of Colorado officials were looking Sunday into whether James Holmes used his role in a graduate program there to amass an arsenal used in a theater shooting rampage, but school officials aren’t saying
whether they had any clue that he was anything more than a hardworking student. Holmes, 24, was not cooperating with officials as he was being held in solitary confinement at a Denver-area county detention facility, Aurora police Chief Dan Oates said. “He lawyered up. He’s not talking to us,” the chief said. It could be months before they learn the motive behind the shootings that left 12 dead and 58 injured, with authorities working with FBI behavioral analysts and looking into Holmes’ relationships. Holmes is scheduled for an initial hearing today at 8:30 a.m. PDT and has been assigned a public defender/
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(AP photo: A woman visits a memorial for the victims in the shooting across the street from the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., Sunday)
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