article_snippet.sent: If this new image sounds like one of an academician, it may be because James Holmes, now 27, once was one.
article_snippet.sent: Raised in central coastal California and in San Diego, James Eagan Holmes is the son of a mathematician father noted for James Eagan Holmes work at the FICO firm that provides credit scores and a registered nurse mother, according to the U-T San Diego newspaper.
article_snippet.sent: James Eagan Holmes also has a sister, Chris, a musician, who's five years younger, the U-T San Diego newspaper said.
article_snippet.sent: James Eagan Holmes family then moved down the California coast, where James Eagan Holmes grew up in the San Diego-area neighborhood of Rancho Peñasquitos, which a neighbor described as "kind of like Mayberry," the San Diego newspaper said.
article_snippet.sent: James Eagan Holmes attended Westview High School, which says " the San Diego newspaper school district sits in "a primarily middle- to upper-middle-income residential community.
article_snippet.sent: There, James Eagan Holmes ran cross-country, played soccer and later worked at a biotechnology internship at the Salk Institute and Miramar College, which attracts academically talented students.
article_snippet.sent: James Eagan Holmes attended college fairly close to home, in a neighboring area known as Southern California's "inland empire" because it's more than an hour's drive from the coast, in a warm, low-desert climate.
article_snippet.sent: James Eagan Holmes entered the University of California, Riverside, in 2006 as a scholarship student.
article_snippet.sent: In 2008 James Eagan Holmes was a summer camp counselor for disadvantaged children, age 7 to 14, at Camp Max Straus, run by Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles.
article_snippet.sent: James Eagan Holmes graduated from UC Riverside in 2010 with the highest honors and a bachelor's degree in neuroscience.
article_snippet.sent: A syllabus that listed Holmes as a student at the medical school shows James Eagan Holmes was to have delivered a presentation about microRNA biomarkers.