By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

As Americans struggle to comprehend the depth of the tragedy that occurred during a showing of The Dark Knight Rises in the early hours of Friday morning, information is trickling in on the mass shooting suspect who currently sits in custody awaiting his fate.

Breaking Celebrity News has compiled a seven things about James Eagan Holmes, the loner and a medical school dropout who has killed at least 12 people and injured as many as 38 in the movie theater near Denver, Colorado.

1. Described as 6'3", the 24-year-old with dark hair and a seemingly friendly smile was born on December 13, 1987.

2. Since being admitted in June 2011, James Holmes was a student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver until last month, working towards a PhD in neuroscience, but why the highly intelligent young man dropped out of school is not known. According to a Twitter post from a fellow student, he recently presented on 'Psychiatric & Neurological Disorders' for his neuroscience PhD program

3.Before moving to Denver, Holmes spent his younger years in the San Diego area where he attended Westview high school in Rancho Penasquitos, California, and graduated in 2006.

4. Holmes' Aurora, Colorado, apartment – which is approximately five miles away from