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Friday March 28, 2008

Colorado church shooter obsessed with porn

The extent of Matthew Murray’s pornography obsession sheds light on his behavior before his killing rampage, the head of Youth With A Mission-Denver said Thursday.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church killer waited at New Life, made phone calls before shootings

While he waited, the 24-year-old talked on his cell phone with an acquaintance from his days at Youth With a Mission in Arvada, the New Life-related missionary program he had been asked to leave after several episodes involving strange behavior in 2002.
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Tuesday December 11, 2007

Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Shooter Matthew Murray posted reworked writing of Columbine killer between attacks

A ranting screed was left on a website between shootings Sunday by the man who police say killed four people at two religious organizations.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church gunman may have warned of violence in online postings

Authorities believe the man who killed four people at a church and missionary training center posted an anti-Christian diatribe online that closely repeated a rant by one of the Columbine killers, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado gunman scared co-workers 5 years ago, heard voices one says

Matthew Murray was kicked out of a missionary training program five years ago for strange behavior, and talked about hearing voices, according to a man who served at the center with him.
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New Life Church • YWAM:

Security Guard Prayed for Divine Guidance Before Shooting Gunman

Jeanne Assam is hailed for saving countless lives in shooting a gunman outside her church, but the volunteer security guard insisted that her steady hand was a matter of divine guidance.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church gunman “hated Christians”

A law-enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation, told The Associated Press that 24-year-old Matthew Murray of Arapahoe County was the lone gunman who killed four people and wounded five others on two church campuses before he was killed.
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YWAM:

Youth With A Mission group targeted in shooting has far reach

Begun in 1960 after a 20-year-old college student said he experienced a vision from God, Youth With a Mission has grown into one of the world’s most formidable Christian missions groups.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado gunman sent hate mail to YWAM missionary center

A 24-year-old man embittered after being kicked out of missionary school three years ago carried out Sunday’s deadly rampages in Colorado Springs and Arvada, police said today.
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Monday December 10, 2007

New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado police seek links in shootings as another victim dies

Police in two Colorado cities were looking for possible connections between deadly attacks on worshippers at a Colorado Springs megachurch and on a Christian missionary center in suburban Denver.
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New Life Church • YWAM:

3 killed in two Colorado shootings; gunman slain

Three people were killed and at least five others wounded Sunday in two shooting sprees — one at a missionary school and another at a church — that authorities said could be connected. The gunman in the second incident was killed by a church security guard, police said.
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Sunday December 9, 2007

YWAM:

Gunman kills 2 at Youth With A Mission missionary training center

The lone gunman walked into Youth with a Mission, began shooting and then ran away, according to a Susan Medina of the Arvada Police Department.
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Wednesday August 14, 2002

YWAM:

MP linked to controversial ‘cult’

Source: Sunday Star-Times - Wellington
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