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Colorado shootings by same gunman, police say; security guard credited with saving lives
Colorado shootings by same gunman, police say; security guard credited with saving lives
Steven Saint, Reuters
Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2007
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado -- A 24-year-old Denver-area man was responsible for weekend shootings at both a Colorado evangelical Christian church and a missionary training center that killed four people, police said on Monday.
Police said Matthew Murray had ties to the Christian missionary training center in Arvada, where he killed two young missionaries with a handgun shortly after midnight, and apparently bore a grudge there.
Security guard Jean Assam, a volunteer, saved many lives at the church, New Life senior pastor Brady Boyd told a televised news conference on Monday. "She's a real hero," he said. There were about 7,000 people in the building when the shooting erupted.
"I heard shots fired. There was chaos. The shots were so loud, I thought he was inside. I saw him coming through the doors," Assam told reporters.
Assam said she then took cover, identified herself to the gunman and "I took him down." She credited God for her survival because of "the firepower he had compared to what I had."
Assam has a law enforcement background but had never fired on a suspect while working as a police officer.
The guy had over a thousand rounds on him.
enough said.
Good post. I guess that's all that needs to be said.