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FarLeftFist

(6,161 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 11:56 PM Jul 2012

(UPDATED) Breaking: Police Seeking 2nd Person of Interest in Aurora Shootings

AURORA, Colo. — Sources tell FOX31 Denver reporter Justin Joseph that a second man is now a person-of-interest in the Aurora theater shooting investigation. We are not disclosing his identity because he has not been charged.

-SNIP-

The person of interest’s Facebook page shows he has a master’s degree in bio-medical science.

Anshutz Medical Center confirms he is in their doctorate program, the same program from which Holmes withdrew several months ago.

Out of caution police searched their campus Friday, but they won’t say what if anything they were looking for or found.
As for the person of interest, all law enforcement jurisdictions, local, state and federal, are looking for him.

Link: http://kdvr.com/2012/07/21/police-looking-for-second-person-of-interest-in-theater-shooting/

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With a degree in bio-medical science I wonder if this 2nd person may be the bomb-maker

UPDATE: This is 2nd person of interest: Yeom Pyo Lee

http://yfrog.com/oeh51np

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(UPDATED) Breaking: Police Seeking 2nd Person of Interest in Aurora Shootings (Original Post) FarLeftFist Jul 2012 OP
F***ing freak! applegrove Jul 2012 #1
I would like to point out that jimlup Jul 2012 #2
I found this about that. LiberalAndProud Jul 2012 #27
Medical schools are very dangerous environments votedems999 Jul 2012 #39
Would they know if something went missing? Mark it for destruction, then take it out. Sirveri Jul 2012 #41
I doubt they dispose of sensitive items via garbage man. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #42
Obviously it's not municipal waste disposal, but the point remains. Sirveri Jul 2012 #44
I will disagree. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #45
That depends on how the lab was set up. If they had one of these guys in charge of disposal. Sirveri Jul 2012 #46
Don't tell me... alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 #3
What about King Tut? ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #6
The person of interest is supposed to be a PhD candidate, too. Recovered Repug Jul 2012 #7
What a poorly written story. DURHAM D Jul 2012 #4
Bingo. Nothing on KUSA. and channel 9 ain't slow...... wandy Jul 2012 #9
Woops, My Bad. KUSA just acknowleged it. They don't know much as yet..... wandy Jul 2012 #14
There are probably more that we have not yet heard about ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #5
So we have a person of interest and his roommate Seedersandleechers Jul 2012 #8
If true, this must be considered terrorism GarroHorus Jul 2012 #10
Yep MasLibertad Jul 2012 #11
I said it in the morning nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #13
Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #35
Yeom Pyo Lee... Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #12
awesome! another draw at the tea party urn! Dreamer Tatum Jul 2012 #15
Weird. FarLeftFist Jul 2012 #16
The Repubs need to support gun control! votedems999 Jul 2012 #34
Interesting. I would have guessed anarchist. LiberalAndProud Jul 2012 #20
Is there a large Korean contingent in the Tea Party? MADem Jul 2012 #22
I doubt it. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #23
It would appear so. LiberalAndProud Jul 2012 #29
Wait a minute - didn't I hear from police yesterday that they were absolutely bullwinkle428 Jul 2012 #17
Could have been done specifically to throw off second person and the perp GarroHorus Jul 2012 #18
I think that this MAY be a reasonable time to Waterboard James Holmes! votedems999 Jul 2012 #33
His LinkedIn page: highplainsdem Jul 2012 #19
Police have questioned him, according to KMGH... Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #21
Maybe Holmes swiped his phone and sent the text? It could happen....? nt MADem Jul 2012 #26
He's NOT a suspect in connection with the shootings, according to this KMGH reporter: highplainsdem Jul 2012 #24
not sounding so much like the lone schizophrenic. or cause he worked at mcdonalds. all the money seabeyond Jul 2012 #25
More news here, from TheDenverChannel.com: highplainsdem Jul 2012 #28
still saying Holmes acted alone this am maddezmom Jul 2012 #30
Holmes seems adept at setting up timed devices. joshcryer Jul 2012 #31
Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #32
3 posts and we are supposed to believe that BS? Lex Jul 2012 #36
There's a rightwing wacknut who has been posting a picture Tsiyu Jul 2012 #43
Pizza in 5,4,3.............. Swede Jul 2012 #37
Why on earth would you leap to that conclusion? myrna minx Jul 2012 #38
You know, you're not fooling anyone here. surrealAmerican Jul 2012 #40

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
2. I would like to point out that
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:04 AM
Jul 2012

bio hazards and chemical weapons should be of significant concern in this case. I'm assuming that they are on top of this but given the academic capabilities of this lunatic his booby trap could be quite ugly. This would be especially true if he had an accomplish.

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
27. I found this about that.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 01:27 AM
Jul 2012
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/21/we-sure-as-hell-are-angry-bomb-squad-defuses-holmes-apartment/

MSNBC spoke to a former resident of apartment #10, the unit that Holmes lived in. The prior tenant, who lived there two years ago, paid $525 a month for the one-bedroom, 800 square foot apartment. The apartment was adjacent to the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, where Holmes was studying for his PhD in neuroscience until he withdrew last month. There was a concern that Holmes may have been able to obtain hazardous materials from the medical school, but Oates said that over the past 24 hours, the school completed a “thorough search of biohazards and radioactive materials and found there is nothing missing.”


This is believable, still the skeptic in me wonders ... would they tell us if something had gone missing?
 

votedems999

(10 posts)
39. Medical schools are very dangerous environments
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 11:39 AM
Jul 2012

Besides torturing monkeys for research, med schools have many dangerous drugs and chemical substances...formaldehyde is a toxic substance, and bodies are preserved in it! Formaldehyde and most drugs, for example pain killers, should be outlawed.

Sirveri

(4,517 posts)
41. Would they know if something went missing? Mark it for destruction, then take it out.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 11:47 PM
Jul 2012

Really quite simple, stuff gets lost in the exchange. Hell a man could even make money off of it. Garbage collector has less stuff to take but charges for more, split the profit, keep the 'garbage'. That or just falsify the logs.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
42. I doubt they dispose of sensitive items via garbage man.
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 12:57 AM
Jul 2012

I 'd guess that each biohazard, drug, chemical, etc , has its own specific disposal protocol... and theres probably logbooks and other records to track it. I'm not an expert, but I'd trust the medical school on this one.

Sirveri

(4,517 posts)
44. Obviously it's not municipal waste disposal, but the point remains.
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 07:29 AM
Jul 2012

Cooking books to hide items as destroyed is quite possible. Not saying it happened in this instance, only that it was a serious possibility.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
45. I will disagree.
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 04:21 PM
Jul 2012

I think the possibility of cooking the books is remote. There probably are several copies, and several signatures from different layers of management. It would have to be a vast conspiracy the whole lab is in on. Ockam's Razor.

Sirveri

(4,517 posts)
46. That depends on how the lab was set up. If they had one of these guys in charge of disposal.
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 10:20 PM
Jul 2012

Well it only takes one step in the chain if you don't have good materials control. I'm remembering back when we used to destroy confidential material back in the US Navy. Get a new book, the old one is 'destroyed'. There was only one guy in that chain, not hard to just take the book home instead of burning it.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
9. Bingo. Nothing on KUSA. and channel 9 ain't slow......
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:19 AM
Jul 2012

But the OP says the magic words. Source, Source, Source..........
And of course FOX any fing thing.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
14. Woops, My Bad. KUSA just acknowleged it. They don't know much as yet.....
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:35 AM
Jul 2012

AURORA - 9Wants to Know has learned authorities are looking into the likelihood that James Holmes had an acquaintance who had knowledge of the attack.

Law enforcement have not identified the person.


That's all for the moment.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
5. There are probably more that we have not yet heard about
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:10 AM
Jul 2012

Law enforcement will cast a wide net in an effort to make sure they have any and all involved with this. Hate to be his regular barista...the search will got that deep.

Seedersandleechers

(3,044 posts)
8. So we have a person of interest and his roommate
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:16 AM
Jul 2012

who left hours before the killings and haven't been seen since. Looks like they may be looking for a 2nd and 3rd person of interest. Wow.

 

GarroHorus

(1,055 posts)
10. If true, this must be considered terrorism
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:20 AM
Jul 2012

This is not looking good, and biological or chemical agents are a distinct possibility now.

Response to GarroHorus (Reply #10)

 

Comrade_McKenzie

(2,526 posts)
12. Yeom Pyo Lee...
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:28 AM
Jul 2012

Matthew Keys ?@ProducerMatthew

Exclusive: The person of interest being sought in the Aurora shooting is Yeom Pyo Lee - http://yfrog.com/oeh51np

 

votedems999

(10 posts)
34. The Repubs need to support gun control!
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 11:35 AM
Jul 2012

I think James Holmes was OWS...certainly we don't want OWS to own any guns...guns kill people...think of what OWS could have done in Oakland with guns! Take up all guns now!

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
20. Interesting. I would have guessed anarchist.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:59 AM
Jul 2012

Is there a manifesto? Sometimes it's not political. Sometimes it's just for the hell of it.

Leopold & Loeb

MADem

(135,425 posts)
22. Is there a large Korean contingent in the Tea Party?
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 01:09 AM
Jul 2012

I'd think the teapeople would be looking askance at Koreans for their Asian-ness and hurling the "They're taking our JERBS" accusation....??

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
17. Wait a minute - didn't I hear from police yesterday that they were absolutely
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:39 AM
Jul 2012

confident that this Holmes character acted alone?

 

GarroHorus

(1,055 posts)
18. Could have been done specifically to throw off second person and the perp
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 12:40 AM
Jul 2012

The police will often use lying as a tactic.

In this specific case, should it work, I have absolutely no problem with the police lying to get the second person.

 

votedems999

(10 posts)
33. I think that this MAY be a reasonable time to Waterboard James Holmes!
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 11:33 AM
Jul 2012

We must make sure that no one else is involved...it is early...waterboarding would induce James Holmes to spill his guts...

 

Comrade_McKenzie

(2,526 posts)
21. Police have questioned him, according to KMGH...
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 01:06 AM
Jul 2012

He is not a suspect in the shootings. Only suspected of sending a threatening text to police.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
25. not sounding so much like the lone schizophrenic. or cause he worked at mcdonalds. all the money
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 01:20 AM
Jul 2012

spent. two people involved. lots of planning.

highplainsdem

(49,001 posts)
28. More news here, from TheDenverChannel.com:
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 01:30 AM
Jul 2012
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31293240/detail.html

DENVER -- Sources close to the investigation of the Aurora theater shootings told the Call7 Investigators that the Aurora Police Department received an electronic communication that threatened violence if James Holmes wasn't released.

-snip-

The communication was traced through an internet protocol number to a router in Aurora. The person who lives at the address is an acquaintance of James Holmes through their program at the Anschutz Medical Campus, according to the sources.

-snip-

Sources said they began looking for the fellow student Friday and they found him Saturday afternoon.

He has been interviewed. It was still unclear Saturday night whether the person actually sent the threat. But, investigators in interviewing him have gained more information about James Holmes, the sources said.




They'e not positive he actually sent the threat, since someone else could have sent it and routed it through that address.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
31. Holmes seems adept at setting up timed devices.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 06:37 AM
Jul 2012

It's possible he just set up something on this guys computer to go off at a certain time, say, a time bomb that if it wasn't reset every 3-4 days it would automatically send out a message.

Response to FarLeftFist (Original post)

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
43. There's a rightwing wacknut who has been posting a picture
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 01:26 AM
Jul 2012

of a guy who is supposedly Holmes being arrested by cops at an OWS protest.

He is convincing people it's Holmes and that Holmes is a Black Block OWS member ( as if this is a coordinated effort )

I won't link to this cretin's posts, but he is convincing a lot of gullible rightwing fanatics who want to believe this, who want to blame anything but lax weapons laws and lack of adequate mental health services for these mass murders we keep enduring.

The only problem: Holmes has no such arrest on his record, so it's all bullshit and merely more proof the Rightwing fanatics are the most insidious liars in the history of mankind.

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