$1 Trillion Federal Deficit: Portion Went to Colorado Killer

CBS - James Holmes, the alleged gunman in the recent theater shooting that left 12 dead in Aurora, Colo., was previously awarded a $26,000 federal grant. WNEW News reports that Holmes was awarded a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It gave the graduate student a $26,000 stipend and paid his tuition for the highly competitive neuroscience program at the University of Colorado in Denver. Holmes was one of six neuroscience students at the school to get the grant money.

Holmes is expected to be formally charged next Monday. He is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and he could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations. Holmes has been assigned a public defender. Weeks before, Holmes quit a 35-student Ph.D. program in neuroscience for reasons that aren’t clear. Read full story here: News New Mexico

$1 Trillion Federal Deficit: Portion Went to Colorado Killer