By now, the entire world is learning the most minute details of the life of the man who allegedly killed 12 people during a shooting rampage at an Aurora, Colo. movie theater.
The media is rife with speculation that James Holmes' family and acquaintances should have seen signs of impending violence.
"But being able to recognize concerning, troubling behavior does not mean you can prevent a mass homicide," FBI agent Mary Ellen O'Toole told the Associated Press. "There are many people at a university level who act quirky and strange and don't go out and commit mass murder."
So, the question remains, what — if anything — could have been done?
Note: We are not saying any one person was responsible for the shooting or could have stopped it. We are just presenting possible warning signs.
A Colorado gun range owner knew something was off about Holmes a few weeks before the shooting.
When Holmes tried to join the Lead Valley Range, something about his outgoing voicemail message set owner Glenn Rotkovich on edge.
Rotkovich called Holmes' message "bizarre — guttural, freakish at best," and warned his staff not to accept Holmes into the gun club.
"I flagged him to people and said, if he shows up, I don't trust him," Rotkovich told the Associated Press, adding that Holmes spoke "in a strange, low-pitched voice with heavy breathing," on his outgoing voicemail message.
Holmes' Match.com profile asked a pretty eerie question.
In his profile on the dating website, Holmes describes himself as an agnostic man who "definitely" wants kids.
"Will you visit me in prison?" Holmes wrote on his page, according to the AP. "I spend a lot of time thinking about the future, mind = blown."
Things got really creepy though when a woman discovered just hours after the shooting the dating service matched her to Holmes.
“It’s pretty scary getting matched to a mass murderer,” the woman, identified as Diana, told TMZ.
His father was a top-tier scientist and perhaps Holmes just couldn't live up his example.
Robert Holmes is a senior scientist in the San Diego office of FICO who boasts a "glittering academic career," that includes degrees from Stanford, UCLA, and Berkeley, according to U-T San Diego.
But, after a 2006 summer internship at the prestigious Salk Institute for Biological Studies, it seems Holmes wasn't destined to follow in his father's footsteps.
Salk neurobiology lab supervisor John Jacobson called Holmes "very undistinguished," after spending the summer working with the then-19-year-old, the Christian Science Monitor reported.
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