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Colorado Church Gunman Killed Himself

Shooter's 'love to hate' Christians comments surface online

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(Newser) – Though Colorado church gunman Matthew Murray was shot by a security guard, the wound that killed him was self-inflicted, reports the Los Angeles Times. Murray shot himself after he was wounded by the volunteer guard who opened fire when Murray burst into the church with three guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

Murray killed a total of four people at the church and in an attack earlier that day at a missionary center. Violent online comments by Murray surfaced yesterday as autopsy results were released. "All you Christians made me this way. I'm just so full of hate now and I love it," wrote Murray under his web name "nghtmrchild26." He's believed to have posted the comments between attacks.

Sgt. Jeff Jensen, right, of the Colorado Springs, Colo., Police Department homicide unit, responds to questions from reporters during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, in Colorado Springs about the shootings at New Life Church on Sunday. Looking on are Skip Arms, public affairs official with the department,...
Sgt. Jeff Jensen, right, of the Colorado Springs, Colo., Police Department homicide unit, responds to questions from reporters during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, in Colorado Springs about...   (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)
Jeanne Assam, left, the security guard who shot a gunman as he terrorized worshipers at New Life Church on Sunday, leaves a news conference with Brady Boyd, senior pastor of the megachurch, after a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, about the shooting at the church in Colorado Springs,...
Jeanne Assam, left, the security guard who shot a gunman as he terrorized worshipers at New Life Church on Sunday, leaves a news conference with Brady Boyd, senior pastor of the megachurch, after a news...   (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)
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