Kaitlyn Fonzi said she lives in the apartment directly beneath the one where Holmes lived. She and her boyfriend were trying to go to sleep Thursday when, at midnight, techno music started blaring from upstairs.
“We heard very loud music coming so I walked upstairs and banged on the door,” Fonzi, a 20-year old biology student at the University of Colorado at Denver, said on Friday.
Fonzi said when she banged on the door, it rattled as if it were unlocked. "I contemplated poking my head in and saying, 'Yo, shut that off.'"
Instead, Fonzi said she went back downstairs and called a non-emergency police number. She said the bass-heavy music kept blasting, as if it was just one song on repeat, until it abruptly stopped at 1:00 a.m. She and her boyfriend figured the music had been on a timer.
Fonzi said they went to sleep, but were awoken by police an hour later and told to evacuate. When she learned about the shooting she said she was glad she hadn't poked her head in. Police later said Holmes' apartment had been filled with "various incendiary devices and trip wires."
Fonzi said she and her boyfriend had never had a problem with their upstairs neighbor before. "It was like nobody lived there," she said.