Was there a warning after all?

The new information is thin because there’s a gag order on the case, but there are indications Suspect A didn’t keep entirely to himself in the days before he opened fire in that Colorado movie theater.

KMGH-TV in Denver is reporting that University psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, who’d been counseling him, was worried enough that she called members of a campus threat assessment team. But the matter was dropped after he left the school.

The weirder nugget is this: KNX Radio in Los Angeles interviewed Dave Aragon, a filmmaker who also hosts MTV’s Pimp My Ride, and who says he got what seems to be, in hindsight, an ominous call.

“He said, ‘Hey I just got your number. I just want to call and tell you I’m a huge fan of Pimp My Ride, and I wanted to just introduce my talk. Do you have a moment to talk?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, what’s your name man?’ He said, ‘My name is James Holmes.’ I said, ‘Oh like John Holmes the porn star,’ and he didn’t get it,” said Aragon.

This James Holmes had some questions about a particularly violent trailer for Aragon’s latest movie, in which a killer dresses like Batman and starts gunning down people.

“He wanted to know if it was selective killing, like does he make a list of people he’s going to kill, or is there just a mass body county throughout the whole movie,” said Aragon.

He was even critical of the weapon choice:

“He asked me as a writer, why I chose the caliber of gun. He was just like ‘Man, that’s the one thing I’m disappointed in. It should have been a bigger gun.'”

Aragon says he finally ended the conversation after an hour. Neither he nor the psychiatrist, as far as we know, saw a reason to alert police.