The Dark Knight Massacre: A Look at Colorado Shooter James Egan Holmes

Early Friday morning, Colorado police arrested James Egan Holmes, after he opened fire at a midnight screening of the "Dark Knight Rises" in an Aurora movie theatre in Colorado. The 24-year-old entered the packed movie house opened fire, shooting sporadically all around killing 12 people and injuring 70.

While in police custody Holmes supposedly told authorities that he was "the joker, the enemy of batman," according to NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who has been in touch with his Colorado counterpart.

 Holmes was a medical student; he was enrolled into a Ph.D. for neuroscience at the University of Colorado Denver. He dropped out of the program suddenly in April; university officials say that the decision was abrupt and unexplained.

Holmes comes from a well-off family in San Diego California. His neighbors have described him as an introvert, always taciturn. "No one knew him... No one," said an unnamed neighbor as reported by the New York Daily News. Holmes himself has described himself as "quiet and easy-going," according to Times.com

After Holmes was arrested, a woman by the name Arlene Holmes identified herself as his mother and told ABC News "You have the right person...I need to call the police ... I need to fly out to Colorado," as reported by Time.com

Police found Holmes apartment to be booby trapped and containing "buckets of ammunition," according to CBS News. Police soon evacuated all the people in the residence.

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