Police: Gunman died of self-inflicted gunshot COLORADO SPRINGS  The man who killed four people at a church and missionary training center died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, police said Tuesday. Matthew Murray, 24, was struck multiple times by a security officer at New Life Church Sunday but died after firing a single shot at himself, the El Paso County Coroner's Office concluded after an autopsy. VIDEO: Autopsy results reveal suicide The teenage sisters he killed at the church, Stephanie and Rachel Works, both were shot in the torso. Murray shot and killed four people at a missionary center in Arvada and the church 80 miles away. VICTIMS: Seven people caught in the crossfire Police said Tuesday he had been expelled from the center and harbored "discontent' toward it. Murray, who lived in Englewood, Colo., and was the son of a neurologist, arrived at the church with an assault rifle, two pistols and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. He also wounded the sisters' father and two other church members before Jeanne Assam, 42, gunned him down, according to police documents filed in court. The documents said it was Murray who earlier that day killed two staff members and wounded two others at the Youth With a Mission training school in Arvada, north of Denver. Arvada Police Chief Don Wick said homicide detectives are "investigating the reasons for his departure from the group" in 2002. Wick said forensics tests Monday afternoon matched a handgun found on Murray's body with spent bullet shells at the missionary center murder scene. "We believe that Matthew Murray is responsible for the crime," Wick said. Police from both cities, working jointly on the cases, said they believe Murray acted alone at each scene but are investigating whether anyone else was involved in planning the assaults. The Associated Press reported that in court papers filed Monday, police said it appeared Murray "had been kicked out of the (Youth With a Mission) program three years prior and in the past few weeks had sent different forms of hate mail to the program and/or its director." Colorado Springs Police Sgt. Jeff Jensen, lead homicide investigator in the case, added that Murray "did express his discontent" with the missionary school. In a written statement, the school said "issues with his health made it inappropriate" for Murray to finish his studies there. The statement did not elaborate. It also said that Stephanie, 18, and Rachael, 16, "were involved with a summer outreach" organized by the church and a Youth With a Mission ministry that rents office space at New Life's sprawling campus on the north edge of Colorado Springs. Murray's father, Ronald Murray, is a Denver-area neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher. Two hours after the Colorado Springs shootings, Arvada police searched a home in Englewood, a suburb of Denver where Matthew Murray lived with his younger brother. Assam has been hailed as a hero for saving hundreds of other lives. The first gunshots outside "were so loud I thought he was inside," Assam said. "There was chaos" in the church as people fled from the shooting. She said she went out into the hallway where Murray had entered the building. "I took cover, waited for him to get closer, identified myself, engaged him and took him down." Assam previously worked as a police officer in Minneapolis from March 1993 to November 1997. Assam is among a dozen volunteer security guards at the church, senior pastor Brady Boyd said. Boyd said they were a necessary precaution because of "the prominence of the church." New Life founder Ted Haggard was dismissed last year after a former male prostitute alleged he had a three-year, cash-for-sex relationship with him. After the missionary school shooting, the church beefed up security further for Sunday's service. Contributing: Patrick O'Driscoll and Carolyn Pesce, USA TODAY; Associated Press Enlarge By Kevin Moloney, AP As many as twenty bullet holes riddle the entryway of New Life Church. Jeff Jensen, of the Colorado Springs Police Department, points to an aerial photograph of the New Life Church campus, where a gunman shot and killed two teens, before a security guard "took him down."



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