Video: Video of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes in high school James Eagan Holmes, 24, is alleged to have walked into theatre number nine of the Century 16 cinema in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises and opened fire on the audience, using four different weapons to murder a dozen people. Last night, as Holmes was still in police custody, a picture was starting to emerge of him as a well-educated young man who had never previously been in trouble with the police, save for a single traffic infringement. Raised in California by his parents Arlene and Robert, he moved from San Diego to Colorado after graduating from The University of California, Riverside, in 2010 with a degree in neuroscience. In June last year, he enrolled in a PhD course in neurosciences at the University of Colorado, Denver. But last month he began the process of withdrawing from the course.