Tax Payers Shell Out $26,000 To Colorado Shooting Suspect

James Holmes Received $26K Grant From Bethesda-Based National Institutes of Health

James Holmes (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)

July 24, 2012 7:49 AM

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) – 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.

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