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The Latest: Psychiatrist reported Holmes to university, mom

Colorado theater shooter James Holmes told his psychiatrist that he thought about homicide three or four times a day.

But Dr. Lynne Fenton insisted Tuesday that Holmes didn’t give her enough specifics in their 2012 meetings to allow her to order him hospitalized against his will.

Fenton testified in Holmes’ trial, making her first public comments about treating the former graduate student in the months before the movie theater shooting.

A lawyer for Holmes pressed Fenton on some of her notes from her treatment sessions, especially Holmes’ homicidal thoughts and her observation that Holmes was having “psychotic level thinking.”

Fenton insisted that when she asked Holmes about whether he had any plans to act on those thoughts, he didn’t answer.

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