UColorado began a "threat assessment" against James Holmes 6 wks. before shooting [View all]

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because his psychiatrist had seen signs that he might be a danger to others -- but the University dropped the assessment when he dropped out of school. The police weren't informed.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/justice/colorado-theater-shooting-psychiatrist/index.html

A court document filed Friday revealed Holmes was a patient of University of Colorado psychiatrist Lynne Fenton before the attack.

Dr. Lynne Fenton expressed her concerns about James Holmes six weeks before the July 20 killings.
Sources told KMGH that Fenton contacted several members of a "behavioral evaluation and threat assessment" team to say Holmes could potentially be a danger to others, the station reported.

The "BETA" team consists of "key" staff members from various university departments who have specific expertise in dealing with assessing potential threats on campus, the school says on its website.
Holmes was a doctoral student at the university's Anschutz Medical Campus until June, when he withdrew from the program.

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"Fenton made initial phone calls about engaging the BETA team" in "the first 10 days" of June but it "never came together" because in the period Fenton was having conversations with team members, Holmes began the process of dropping out of school, a source told KMGH.

Sources told the station that when Holmes withdrew, the BETA team "had no control over him."

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