Documents detail prison assault on Colorado theater shooter James Holmes

[Eugene]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Documents detail prison assault on Colorado theater shooter James Holmes

By Tribune wire reports
MARCH 4, 2016, 7:23 AM | DENVER

Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was transferred to another prison partly because another inmate pushed his way through a partially open door and attacked him, according to prison officials and documents released Thursday.

Holmes was coming out of an office with a case manager when a corrections officer opened a door to the area. The other inmate pushed his way through as officers tried to close it, according to documents detailing the October incident. The inmate hit Holmes in and around the head before officers pulled them apart. The inmate also struck the case manager in the face during the struggle.

The attack happened at the state's highest security prison, the Colorado State Penitentiary, at a time when Holmes was being closely monitored and held in a pod by himself while prison officials sought more suitable housing for him.

Holmes wasn't seriously injured in the attack, but it was among many reasons officials transferred him to a different prison in January, Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Laurie Kilpatrick said.

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[saturnsring]

1. well thank god holmes wasnt seriously injured

[Wilms]

2. Holmes is mentally ill.

That doesn't make what he did any less tragic. But he is mentally ill.

[Aristus]

3. It's not fun being attacked, is it, asshole?

At least you're still alive...

[Brickbat]

4. I hope no one supports this.

Oh wait, too late.