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Colo. Church Gunman 'Hated Christians'

Was expelled from missionary school where he killed 2

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(Newser) – The gunman at two Colorado church shootings yesterday had been expelled from the missionary school where killed two people, the AP reports. He also sent the school hate mail in recent weeks and may have "hated Christians," police said. The school admitted that it had kicked out the gunman, Michael Murray, a few years ago due to "issues with his health."

Both of Murray's victims at a megachurch 80 miles away were also members of the school, which police called "the common denominator" of the shootings, the Rocky Mountain News reports. They are still probing his dismissal, but one source said problems with Murray must have been significant because the school goes to "the nth degree with people."

Jeanne Assam, the security guard who gunned down a gunman as he terrorized worshippers after the Sunday service at New Life Church, talks about the shooting at the church in Colorado Springs, Colo., during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Two women died from the shooting at the...
Jeanne Assam, the security guard who gunned down a gunman as he terrorized worshippers after the Sunday service at New Life Church, talks about the shooting at the church in Colorado Springs, Colo., during...   (Associated Press)
Jeff Jensen, an investigator with the homicide unit of the Colorado Springs, Colo., Police Department, uses an aerial photograph of the campus at New Life Church to talk about the Sunday shooting at the church during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Two women died from the shooting...
Jeff Jensen, an investigator with the homicide unit of the Colorado Springs, Colo., Police Department, uses an aerial photograph of the campus at New Life Church to talk about the Sunday shooting at the...   (Associated Press)
As many as twenty bullet holes riddle the entryway of the New Life church in Colorado Springs, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, where a day earlier a gunman entered the building. Two are dead in addition to the gunman and another three are injured in the second shooting to hit a...
As many as twenty bullet holes riddle the entryway of the New Life church in Colorado Springs, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, where a day earlier a gunman entered the building. Two are dead in addition to the...   (Associated Press)
Church overseer Larry Stockstill leaves the bullet-riddled entryway of the New Life church in Colorado Springs, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, where a day earlier a gunman entered the building. Two are dead in addition to the gunman and another three are injured in the second shooting to hit a Colorado...
Church overseer Larry Stockstill leaves the bullet-riddled entryway of the New Life church in Colorado Springs, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, where a day earlier a gunman entered the building. Two are dead in...   (Associated Press)
Mel Waters, an associate pastors at New Life Church, talks about the Sunday shooting at the church in Colorado Springs, Colo., during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Two women died from the shooting at the church, which was one of two church shootings in Colorado on Sunday....
Mel Waters, an associate pastors at New Life Church, talks about the Sunday shooting at the church in Colorado Springs, Colo., during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Two women died from the...   (Associated Press)
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