Posted on 12/12/2007 10:02:36 AM PST by george76
Spokeswoman Confirms Tip Called In, Investigation Begun.
A member of an online support group that Matthew Murray reportedly participated in alerted federal authorities to ominous anti-Christian postings before Murray went on a shooting rampage at a Colorado church.
Joe Istre, president of the Association of Former Pentecostals, which operates the online site, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he and other forum participants had grown familiar with the frequent and disturbingly dark poetry and obsessions of one participant, whose nickname was nghtmrchld26.
But when that same author -- believed to be Murray -- posted Sunday that he wanted to kill Christians, a forum participant immediately contacted the FBI, Istre said.
Istre said he received a message from a board member at 12:38 p.m. confirming the forum member had contacted the FBI, about a half-hour before the bloodshed at New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
Denver FBI spokeswoman Rene Vonder Haar said the agency began an investigation immediately after receiving a phone call at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, but she refused to discuss the nature of the call. Vonder Haar said the information was passed on to police in Arvada, where two members of a missionary training center had been killed earlier Sunday, and Colorado Springs.
But Colorado Springs police Sgt. Scott Schwall said police there didn't learn the Murray family home's address in Englewood until after the church shootings, and that a search did not begin until after dark.
He said the department received some information from the FBI well after the New Life shooting took place
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
A Hate site finally sees its seed blossom.
nghtmrchld26
Does that mean they have 25 other nightmarechild logins?
Call the FBI and order a pizza, see who shows up first.
When Seconds Count, Police Are Only Minutes Away
Looks much more like a recovery site to me.
We have become a country that refuses to protect itself against its own worst enemies, internal and external. Hence, our once gleaming cities have become crime-ridden open sores, our small towns drug-infested open sewers, and our most lethal foreign enemies are protected by our own Congress. Call it “Psychological AIDS” (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
In any event, people have to be responsible for their own defense for at least the first 10-15 minutes.
Good for them!
“A “hate site”?
Looks much more like a recovery site to me.
Ex-Pentecostals.org”
It is a support site, if you will. I posted there a few years ago. Interesting stories there.
Read it again. They heap vitrol on the church and its followers.
A recovery site (ie alcohol) is where you talk about your recovery, not heap scorn and derision on people who drink.
They’re still checking out some wacky report about muslims wanting to fly but not land. Who ever heard such a crazy thing?
When you read this guy’s posts, they are not much different than Democrat Underground.
Only the beginning.
Read it again.
Looking it over, it doesn't look particularly Christian.
Well that's nice, but it didn't stop him. Only a nice-looking lady citizen with a gun did.
Matthew Murray update.
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