AccusedTheaterShooter’sPsychiatristWarnedColleaguesofPossibleDanger.doc

Accused Theater Shooter’s Psychiatrist Warned Colleagues of Possible Danger A psychiatrist treating James Holmes alerted colleagues that he could be dangerous months before he went on a deadly shooting rampage in a Colorado theater. By?MADISON GRAY?|?@madisonjgray?|?August 2, 2012?|?+ Tweet inShare CNN SCREENGRAB Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes appears in a Centennial, Colo. courtroom for his arraignment on Monday, July 23, 2012. The university psychiatrist who was examining accused movie theater shooter?James Holmes?found his behavior so erratic that she brought it to the attention of a group that measures the possibility of violent campus threats. Dr. Lynne Fenton, who treated Holmes earlier this year, notified her colleagues at the University of?Colorado?Behavioral Evaluation and Threat Assessment Team that Holmes could constitute a threat to others,?Denver’s KMGH-TV reported?Thursday. Citing unnamed sources, the station reported that Fenton brought up concerns about Holmes to several members of the BETA team who have expertise in threatening behavior. But police in Aurora, Colo., where Holmes lived, were never contacted by the University of Colorado. (MORE:?James Holmes Charged with 142 Counts, Including First-Degree Murder, in Colorado Theater Shooting) Fenton, who is a principal member of the BETA team, discussed Holmes’ behavior in separate conversations with other team members in early June, six weeks before the shooting. Holmes had been attending the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where Fenton worked, to pursue a Ph.D,? but he unexpectedly dropped out of the university’s neuroscience program on June 10 and never returned to campus. Three days prior, he did poorly on an oral presentation, the same day he went out to purchase an AR-15 rifle. After he withdrew from the school, officials said, the BETA team had no power over him. Under federal law, Fenton had would have had a duty to act if there were a specific threat that Holmes made, but o