DENVER — Newly released documents show that officials at the University of Colorado feared for their safety after a graduate student there was identified as the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shootings.
The internal emails were among several thousand documents released Wednesday under Colorado’s Open Records Act.
The trove is heavily redacted because the university said it would violate federal privacy laws to release information about James Holmes’ academic performance or medical issues. Holmes’ attorneys say he is mentally ill and that he withdrew from the school’s neuroscience program after failing a final exam.
