“I was afraid it was him.”

That's what his mother said.

Despite the efforts to make James Holmes conform to a stereotype which would be acceptable to one or another of our current political fever dreams (He’s a Muslim … He’s a tea-party guy … He’s a Democrat … He’s a gun nut … etc.), the truth is almost certainly that he’s a very crazy guy who scared lots of people and who, in a normal and rational society, would have been placed in, and remained in, a state hospital for the rest of his life.

We hear that he was smart, that he was quiet, that he was normal. But if his own mother said “I was afraid it was him” you know that he was batshit crazy and that he people who knew him best knew that but could do nothing about it.