DENVER (Reuters) – The psychiatrist who treated suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes contacted a University of Colorado police officer to express concerns about Holmes’ behaviour several weeks before the rampage, ABC News reported, citing unnamed sources.
The sources did not know what the officer approached by Dr Lynne Fenton did with the information she passed along, ABC said in a report late on Monday on its website.
They said, however, that the officer was recently interviewed, with an attorney present, by the Aurora, Colorado, Police Department as a part of the investigation of the July 20 shooting that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded.
The sources said Fenton would have had to have serious concerns to break confidentiality with her patient to contact the police officer or others, the network said.
Holmes, 24, was a doctoral student of neuroscience at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus before turning in paperwork to drop out in June, the month before the shooting in an Aurora theater.
