Posted on 12/10/2007 7:12:18 AM PST by jan in Colorado
Police in Colorado on Monday were looking into possible links between shootings at a Christian evangelical church and a missionary training center over the weekend that left four victims and a gunman dead.
A man dressed in black, wearing combat boots and holding an assault rifle and at least one handgun, opened fire in the parking lot of the vast evangelical New Life church in Colorado Springs after Sunday services, killing one person on the spot and wounding others. A second person died later, police said.
A security guard shot and killed the gunman, Colorado Springs Police Chief Richard Myers told a news conference.
Police did not identify the gunman. There were about 7,000 people in the building when the shooting erupted, a pastor said.
In an incident about 12 hours earlier and 70 miles away, a man entered a Christian missionary training center in the Denver suburb of Arvada and killed two young missionaries with a handgun shortly after midnight, police said.
The Arvada gunman, also dressed in dark clothing, fled on foot in the snow.
The attacks -- both at Christian religious buildings on a Sunday shortly before Christmas -- caused shock and dismay.
They came just four days after a 19-year-old man killed eight people and then himself with an assault rifle at a busy shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska.
Police in the two Colorado cities were sharing information but there was no indication of the motive in either case.
"We have not been able to identify a motive as of yet," Colorado Springs police spokesman Skip Arms told CNN.
While Myers said there was no information that the attacks were related, Arvada Police Chief Don Wick said there could be a connection.
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Ask and ye shall receive. God Bless her. I am sure there are thousands who thanked God for her!
The Left's anti-gun agenda does not, of course, extend to itself:
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They might as well have been armed with bananas in their holsters
Jesus did not say “Sell your robe and buy a wooden sword and just draw it and wave it around and yell.”
He also did not say to go get a CCW permit first.
I’m sure the swords were not for cutting up bead and fishes.
Your post was a far too serious one to make jokes as I’m prone to doing.
But I did have a fleeting thought of - Chaquita Banana..
She also shared that she was on her third day of a fast...
and that when you compare her firepower to the shooters, you KNOW it was God that won that battle.
[The Left’s anti-gun agenda does not, of course, extend to itself:]
Just to the hoi-polli..
But we are armed!
Wow, I had not read that. This story is all over the place. That is a good thing!
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I know
I didn’t read it. There was a press conference shown on local news and she told her story (the entire time crediting God) and answered questions from reporters.
That presser would be worth turning on the TV. If you hear it is on a cable network, please let me know...other than cnn of course.
Yes.
You can try going to
http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=82536
and then clicking on “Woman who shot gunman says she was given assignment from God - December 10, 2007 “ where there’s a video camera icon.
I’ll also check YouTube.
Click on the video camera icon.
God made her strong when she was weak (from the fast)
How are ya?
First time I have ever posted a YouTube video... I hope it worked..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yRcWpU4bGNc
Thank you for making and posting the video. You did a great job! Congrats.
You’re welcome!
Note that they were saying that they are looking into whether her shots killed him, or he shot himself. By her wording in the press conference, I suspect that she suspects the latter. That would also explain the investigation secrecy.
Yes, I saw that thread. I should have pinged you. I’m sorry. It would explain how she seemed edgy when asked certain questions and her Pastor stepped in.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938009/posts
Ah! So my suspicions were right. :-) Sorry I am behind the times...was busy at work all day.
Regardless, her shots brought him down, stopping the attack. :-)
I’ve been doing well...and you?
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