James Holmes, the University of Colorado dropout student charged with the shooting at the Dark Knight movie screening at an Aurora theater, mailed burnt currency to his University of Colorado psychiatrist, according to court testimony on Monday, according to news reports.
James Holmes is charged with 166 counts of murder, attempted murder among other charges. During his fateful killing spree, he took 12 lives and injured 58 more. In the most recent developments in this case, Holmes, 24, was slated to appear to appear in court in November but that was postponed after he rammed his head into the jail cell in an attempt to commit suicide. Reports show his injuries "were not serious."
Holmes appeared in court on Monday appearing again, quiet and out of tune with reality, according to the Associated Press. During the Arapahoe County hearing, three people testified that he sent burnt money and ashes to the University of Colorado psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, who was seeing Holmes before the July 20 shooting.
No explanation as to why Holmes sent the burnt money to the psychiatrist on the day of the shooting has been offered. Making it even more puzzling is the fact that Fenton testified in September that she had seen Holmes only once, on July 11, and considered their relationship terminated.
Fenton also admitted to alerting campus police after their session because what he divulged to her left her concerned.
Authorities seized the package on July 23, three days after the shooting, after finding it in the mail room of the medical campus where Holmes studied in Colorado. Several media outlets reported that the package contained a notebook with descriptions of an attack.
James Holmes had been a neuroscience doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Denver before dropping out six weeks prior to the shooting. Fenton was medical director of student mental health services at the university's Anschutz Medical Campus.
