James Holmes's musician sister has song called 'Walking on Death Row'

James Holmes's musician sister has song called "Walking on Death Row"

By Dave Herrera Mon., Jul. 30 2012 at 8:25 AM

Chris Holmes.

The face is pretty unmistakable: The features look strikingly similar to the now iconic visage that's been burned into our collective consciousness over the past ten days. But this face doesn't belong to the person alleged to have shot seventy people at an Aurora movie theater just after midnight on July 20. This one belongs to a promising San Diego-based singer/songwriter named Chris Holmes, who just happens to share a surname -- and a gene pool -- with a suspected mass murderer: James Holmes, who'll be back in Arapahoe County District Court this morning.

Holmes's semi-reclusive life included seemingly zero social media presence -- he's conspicuously absent online, with the exception of reported pages on dating and sex sites. But his sister Chris, five years his junior, is not. Reportedly a student at San Diego State University, she has a notable online presence, including a still-active Facebook page dedicated to her music.

Chris still has some songs and videos floating around online, including one tune with a title that seems especially poignant in light of the horrific events that have transpired recently. While the song appears to have been posted at least a couple years ago, "Walking on Death Row" seems eerily prescient, and the words are chilling. Visit our Backbeat blog to hear a snippet of the song.

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Aurora, Chris Holmes, James Holmes, theater shooting, Walking on Death Row

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Tyler858

First of all I have been close friends with the family as long as I can remember he was not adopted that's made up and Chris's song is a metaphor of walking down the hard roads and being able to overcome that especially with the help of prayer and the fact that people have to bring the innocent members of the family so much grief and troubles with the slander and lies is honestly pathetic I have sat by and kept my mouth shut about all the things I have read but when you take a extremely talented musician and bash her for a song that if you actually listen and think about what the words say you would understand it is not about death row. I have listened to her sing that song multiple times I even have it on my iPod and was around when she wrote it... so as the media what you SHOULD be doing is Uncovering the REAL facts and reveal the truth like your job description entails. Because pretty much everything that you say with a negative connotation towards Arlene Robert and Chris is complete and udder crap they are AMAZING people who have done nothing but show they are a good family and that they love their son but are consistently smeared and talked about and that is the kind of stuff that the media doesn't tell you so before talking about the family think about how they were Hurt a lot more than almost the whole country when they were informed of everything so leave the family out of your mouths because they do not deserve to have these kind of things that are being said about them

Alejandra

James was adopted. I doubt he and Chris are blood related at all.

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@Alejandra

the only news outlet that says he was adopted is the dailymail, that's not a very trustable source, darling!

Josh Davidoff

Got to agree, I thought westword had higher standards than this. The only thing worse than reporting on the shooter is reporting on the shooters singing sister. Why dont you report something meaningful for once.