People with same name as shooter hounded on social media[ Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:07:16 GMT ]One of the first places many turned to for information on Friday about the suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes was Facebook, and a kind of lynch mob mentality took hold among some who wanted to track down the shooting suspect themselves. With many Facebook users sharing so common a name, some became victims of nasty messages — and friend requests.