Colorado New Life Church Shooting Suspect Identified As Matt Murray – Matthew J. Murray
December 10, 2007 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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Matt Murray 24, son of a Denver Neurologist and living with his parents in their Englewood home, has been identified as the shooter in the Colorado Church shootings at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
Police are expected to confirm his identity at a scheduled 3:00pm news conference.
Authorities searched a home in the Denver suburb of Englewood early Monday, seeking any link between two deadly shooting sprees at Christian religious centers in Colorado Springs and Arvada.
Neighbors said the family has lived at that home for 10-plus years and has two sons, one of which attends a religious school. A Cherry Creek School District spokeswoman said that Murray was homeschooled and she doesn’t have any record of him attending a high school in the area or receiving a diploma.
Murray lives with his father, a neurologist with a practice in Lone Tree, his mother and brother.
Arvada Chief of Police Don Wick says Murray was the gunman in both attacks. He confirmed that forensic evidence found at New Life Church, and at the scene in Arvada match, linking the two deadly scenes.
Chief Wicks also said Murray once belonged to Youth with a Mission, which has campuses at both shooting scenes, but he was somehow removed from the group in 2002.
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