Irenic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
On December 9, 2007, Matthew Murray entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs with an automatic rifle, two handguns, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Earlier he had entered the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) training center for missionaries near Denver and shot four of its staff members, killing two. He drove 65 miles south to 10,000-member New Life Church, "got out of his car and started firing in the...
Gun Guys (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
An in-depth article from the Denver Post on March 28th offered insights into the mind of Matthew Murray who attacked two Colorado churches, killing 5 people, including himself, after being wounded by a guard, and injuring 6 others. Jacinda Treadway was the last person to talk to Matthew Murray before he opened fire on [...]
Gun Guys (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
An article from the Herald Sun noted: The man who killed four people at a church and a missionary training centre in Colorado died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said yesterday. Matthew Murray, 24, was shot several times by a security officer at New Life Church on Sunday, but his death was ruled a suicide, the [...]
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
Killer posted Web links to Columbine videos: I'm officially going to declare cowardly scumbag church shooter Matthew Murray a mutant. It seems he took a page out of the Cho Seung-Hui handbook and posted links to pro-Columbine videos from YouTube between shootings. Eleven messages posted between Sunday's attacks by "nghtmrchld26" spoke of abuse at the hands of Christians, of leaving this nightmare behind...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
The gunman who killed four people in two church-related attacks on Sunday committed suicide after being shot “multiple times” by a volunteer security guard at a church in Colorado Springs, the El Paso County coroner said. The man, Matthew Murray, 24, was confronted by the guard, Jeanne Assam, a former police officer and member of the New Life Church, as he entered the building. He fired a single bullet...
toothdigger's comeback (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
JUDITH KOHLER writes: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday. The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household....
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Our little Bush
Will anybody with anything constructive to say in politics quit calling Bushy 'Our President.' He's the elected president, sure, but I don't vote for anybody...
anonymous - 12/11/2007