CNN 2012-08-06

 We begin tonight with breaking news in the Calorado tragedy that raises some very troubling questions with somebody in a position to sound a clear warning about the alleged¹ shooter, somebody with both the expertise² and the duty to see trouble coming, and did that somebody drop the ball(失球、失职)? 

 

 

 

Twelve people died in the shooting, as you know, that's at the Century-16 Theatre in Aurora³, Colorado. Dozens more were wounded. Some with life-altering injuries. Could all of this have been prevented? Some very big questions tonight. 

 

 

 

John Ferrugia is an investigative reporter for CNN Denver affiliate⁴ KMGH. He joins us now with the very latest. 

 

 

 

John, give us a timeline here. We've learned some information about the alleged shooter. It concerns his psychiatrist⁵(精神病学家) actually had about …  

 

 

 

Well, Anderson, in the first 10 days of June, a number of things were going on. I'll give you a timeline here, kind of set the scene(为某事做好准备). On June 7th, the suspect in these shootings was to take an oral exam. He's in the Ph.D. program, the neuroscience program of the University of Colorado. He took this oral exam as a preliminary oral exam and he didn't do well on it at all. Secondly⁶, he had to find a mentor⁷(导师) to continue in this neuroscience program. We're told it's unclear if he could find a mentor. 

 

 

 

On the 7th, on June 7th, the same day that he basically failed that test, he went out in the afternoon and he bought an AR-15 assault rifle. It was in that afternoon that we know that he certainly, or around that period, he was certainly talking to his psychiatrist who was Dr. Lynn Fenton. Now we don't know what those conversations were, but we know during that period, which seemed to be a very high stressed period for him, something that he said to his psychiatrist caused her to contact the University of Colorado Threat Assessment⁸ team. 

 

 

 

Now that Threat Assessment team was formed in part with her help and she's on that team. So she's a member, she helped form the team, she contacted several of her colleagues on that team. We don't know what she told him. We don't know what triggered her to call them, but they decided⁹ after a day or so not to convene¹⁰. And the reason was it’s because three days after he failed that test and bought that AR-15, on the 10th of June, he dropped out of school. 

 

 

 

They then thought, the team thought, we're told by our sources, the team thought they had no jurisdiction¹¹, they had no control over him so there was nothing that they could do vis-a-vis(相比、面对面) this concern that she had. 

 

 

 

Again, we don't know what the concern was. What we do know is is that no one, through our sources and through our reporting, we have been told, no one contacted the Aurora Police Department with any of these concerns. 

 

 

 

So that's, I mean, that's really interesting. And this is all new information that we're really just learning now. So certainly whatever he had said, allegedly said to his psychiatrist raised enough red flags that she became concerned, contacted other members of this threat assessment team but because he dropped out of the program, you're saying, they never actually, formally intervened or formally got together to discuss him? 

 

 

 

That's correct. Our reporting, though our sources, says that essentially¹² in the process of considering what, you know, Dr. Fenton was telling them, at that point, during that period of time, he dropped out of school. They then thought well, we, you know, we can't really, he's not a student anymore. We're the threat assessment team for the University of Colorado, there's not much we can do. We either don't have jurisdiction or we, you know, what do we know. He's not, he's not coming here anymore. 

 

 

 

As a matter of fact, two days later after the 10th, his access card was cut off. He couldn't, he couldn't come back to the campus and get into any labs or the areas where he was working. 

 

 

 

But, Anderson, be clear on this. We don't know what was said so we don't know the level of threat or the level of concern. And was that level to the level that would have been necessarily, been reportable to the police? As you know right, across the country, there are obviously different rules in different states. But if you're, if you're here, and this is where we need to be to report to police, we don't know if that call to the threat assessment team might have been here, about something down here. 

 

 

 

Right. 

 

 

 

We don't have any idea about that.

 

 

 

John, stick around. I want to bring in practicing psychiatrist, host of HLN's Dr. Drew Pinsky. Also Brett Sokolow. He's the executive director of the National Behavioral Intervention¹³ Team that developed the Threat Assessment Program for universities after the Virginia Tech shooting. He joins us now by phone. 

 

 

 

Mr. Sokolow, give us your take on what we've just now learned. The limited information that we have. 

 

 

 

Sure, Anderson. Well, based on what I'm hearing so far and the reading I'm seeing on the coverage¹⁴, it seems like there was an appropriate flow of information going on within the university that, you know, most concerning …. There was this treating psychiatrist that she communicated that information to the Behavioral Intervention Team on campus. 

 

 

 

Now, we've already talked about there's a threshold for when a psychiatrist can reveal that information. But information flows both ways with this team. Maybe that someone brought information to the team about Holmes and depends on who's on the team they consulted about it, or maybe the extension brought information to the team about Holmes, which would then imply that there was a special threatening behavior that was imminent¹⁵ and that she felt the need to alert the team to that.

1 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

2 expertise   

n.专门知识(或技能等)，专长

参考例句：

• We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
• You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。

3 aurora   

n.极光

参考例句：

• The aurora is one of nature's most awesome spectacles.极光是自然界最可畏的奇观之一。
• Over the polar regions we should see aurora.在极地高空,我们会看到极光。

4 affiliate   

vt.使隶(附)属于；n.附属机构，分公司

参考例句：

• Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业。
• What is the difference between affiliate and regular membership?固定会员和附属会员之间的区别是什么？

5 psychiatrist   

n.精神病专家；精神病医师

参考例句：

• He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling.他去看精神科医生治疗不能自拔的赌瘾。
• The psychiatrist corrected him gently.精神病医师彬彬有礼地纠正他。

6 secondly   

adv.第二，其次

参考例句：

• Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二，动脑筋提出自己的见解。
• Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次，需要确定所作用的载荷。

7 mentor   

n.指导者，良师益友；v.指导

参考例句：

• He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
• He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。

8 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

10 convene   

v.集合，召集，召唤，聚集，集合

参考例句：

• The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
• Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月，高级官员在伦敦会齐。

11 jurisdiction   

n.司法权，审判权，管辖权，控制权

参考例句：

• It doesn't lie within my jurisdiction to set you free.我无权将你释放。
• Changzhou is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.常州隶属江苏省。

12 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

13 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

14 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

15 imminent   

adj.即将发生的，临近的，逼近的

参考例句：

• The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
• The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。