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'''Matthew J. Murray''' (] &ndash; ], ]) was one of two sons of a prominent ] neuro-surgeon.<ref name=dp>{{cite web|url=http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7682958|title=Colo. church shooting victims identified|date=]|accessdate=2007-12-10|publisher=]}}</ref> Murray was ] by his mother Loretta in a suburb of ], in what friends and neighbors described as a deeply religious ] home.<ref name="MSNBC">
{{cite news
| title = Demons haunted Colorado gunman’s world
| author = ], ]
| publisher = ]
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| url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22221432/
| accessdate = 2008-01-22
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{{cite news
| title = Report: Gunman Was Angry At Christians
| author = Eric Gorski, Colleen Slevin, Jacques Billeaud, George Merritt and Lara Jakes Jordan
| publisher = ]
| date =
| url = http://cbs4denver.com/local/Matthew.Murray.assam.2.608232.html
| accessdate = 2008-01-22
}} </ref> He was the perpetrator of the ], ] that occurred on ], ].


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==Murray's death==
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Jeanne Assam, a New Life Church volunteer security guard, shot Murray several times with her personally-owned ]. After Murray was wounded, he killed himself with a shotgun.<ref>{{cite news
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| title = Police: Church Gunman Killed Himself
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| url = http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TFEJO00&show_article=1
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| publisher = Breitbart.com
| date= 2007-12-11
| accessdate = 2007-12-11
}}</ref> Based on the large amount of ammunition in Murray's possession, it is widely believed that he would have shot many more people had he not been forced to stop.

==Motives==
Law enforcement officials stated that Murray was motivated by hatred of Christianity.<ref></ref> Police initially claimed when supporting a search warrant that Murray had recently sent hate mail to the ] training center--but later retracted the statement, stating that Murray sent e-mails to an affiliated group in which he criticized Christians but did not threaten violence.<ref name="7PoliceRetraction">http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14858399/detail.html</ref><ref name="RockySearch">http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/10/cops-search-arapahoe-home/</ref><ref name="RockyWarrant">
http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/documents/2007/2007-12/20071210/121007searchwarrant.PDF</ref> He had been dismissed from the school's program three years earlier.<ref name="RockySearch">http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/10/cops-search-arapahoe-home/</ref><ref name="RockyWarrant">
http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/documents/2007/2007-12/20071210/121007searchwarrant.PDF</ref> Murray self-identified with ], ], and former ] member ].<ref name="Post121207">
{{cite web
| title = "YOUR Columbine": Gunman wrote of rejection as reason for revenge
| author = Jeremy P. Meyer, David Migoya and Christopher N. Osher
| publisher = ]
| date = ], ]
| url = http://www.denverpost.com/rapids/ci_7696043
| accessdate = 2008-01-03
| quote = Rodriguez, as a child member in a cult, was forced to perform sex acts. He later left the cult, killed a former nanny and then killed himself. In April, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and himself in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history.
}} </ref>

Before the shooting Murray left several violent and threatening messages on several religious websites, espousing his hatred for Christianity and his intentions on killing as many Christians as possible.

One message read: <i>"I'm coming for EVERYONE soon and I WILL be armed to the ...teeth and I WILL shoot to kill... God, I can't wait till I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame, I don't care if I live or die in the shoot-out. All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you... as I can especially Christians who are to blame for most of the problems in the world."</i> <ref>http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=82548</ref><ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316387,00.html</ref>

This posting demonstrates that Murray was influenced by ] perpetrator ], who left the following message on his website prior to his own killing spree: <i>"I'm coming for EVERYONE soon and I WILL be armed to the fucking teeth and I WILL shoot to kill... God, I can't wait til I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame. I don't care if I live or die in the shoot-out. All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you as I can, especially a few people. Like Brooks Brown."</i>

Investigators obtained copies of Murray's writings and studied other Web sites. Their probe revealed that his writings, which spanned several months, became increasingly violent. Some web users tried to counsel Murray and one psychologist even offered her services after reading his poem called "Crying all alone in pain in the nightmare of Christianity". Murray refused her offer.<ref>http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=82548</ref>

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