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JEANNE ASSAM, a volunteer security guard at Colorado Springs' New Life Church, describing her emotions as she wounded the shooter who killed two sisters in the church's parking lot and then himself...
Even before two of its teenage congregants were shot near their car on Sunday, New Life Church in Colorado Springs had been dealing with a legacy of trauma. At the end of 2006, the megachurch had suffered through a sex scandal after its founder Ted Haggard admitted to a relationship with a male escort. Church membership plummeted from 14,000 to 10,000. Now, with a new pastor on board only since August, the church is once again in the national spotlight, this time as part of a shocking two-episode multiple murder. At a press conference today, the church...
...focusing on 24-year old Matthew Murray - the gunman in the New Life Church shooting, who was shot and killed by an armed New Life security volunteer - as the likely gunman in the earlier shooting as well. Murray, whose last known address was with his parents in Colorado's Arapahoe County, had apparently brought several smoke bombs with him to New Life. The police bomb squad was reportedly called into his parents' home during a search. Indeed, the police had searched the home of Murray's parents before the New Life incident occurred...
...teen. His association with YWAM was brief, according to KMGH Channel 7, ABC's Denver affiliate, because directors said there were "health" issues. The TV station also said Murray's family was "religious." Last year, according to the Denver Post, he enrolled for one class at the Colorado Christian University but barely began the course and dropped out. The Associated Press has a police source who says Murray "hated Christians...
...Vlount added that as early as the age of nine or ten, Pring-Wilson carried a pocket knife when growing up, but that was “pretty normal” in his home state of Colorado...