Colo. shooting suspect: Brief romance, few friends Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 4:27 p.m., Wednesday, December 5, 2012 The emails regarding James Holmes were released Wednesday in response to a public records request. The chair of the neuroscience department wrote that Holmes was not close to his fellow students in the program but that he had one or two friends in other programs.