SKULL CAP GUNMAN KILLS CHURCH STUDENTS

Open season on missionary students."Wearing combat boots and carrying an assault rifle and at least one pistol, the gunman, apparently without provocation, opened fire in a parking lot and shot four people, one of them fatally, as bystanders dashed for cover. There were about 7,000 worshipers inside the church when the shooting erupted, a church official said. "

Gunman Kills 2 at Denver-Area Mission AOL News

DENVER (Dec. 9) - A gunman walked into a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday and opened fire, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by late morning.

David Zalubowski, AP Two people are dead after a gunman walked into this youth ministry dormitory in Arvada, Colo., and opened fire on Sunday. There were no immediate arrests and no word on a motive. The shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. at the Youth With a Mission center, police spokeswoman Susan Medina said. About 45 people were evacuated from the dormitory in this Denver suburb and moved to an undisclosed location. A man and a woman were killed and two men were wounded, Medina said.

All four victims were staff members, said Paul Filidis, a Colorado Springs-based spokesman with Youth With a Mission.

Brady White, who attends Faith Bible Chapel, where the center is located, said he spoke to some students there, who were unhurt but called the experience "terrifying."

"They're just wonderful people," White said of the center's students. "Their mission is to know God and to make him known."

Police identified the victims as Tiffany Johnson, 26, and Philip Crouse, 23. Youth With a Mission said Johnson was from Minnesota and Crouse was from Alaska. Their hometowns weren't immediately available.

Cheril Morrison, wife of chapel pastor George Morrison, said Crouse had just hung up Christmas lights at her home and Johnson was "an amazingly beautiful person."

One of the injured men was hospitalized in critical condition and the other was in stable condition, police said. Both are in their 20s.

Witnesses told police that the gunman was a 20-year-old white male, wearing a dark jacket and skull cap, who left on foot. He may have glasses or a beard.

"There's no blueprint for this, we're just going to be honest and pray for one another, cry with one another," center director Peter Warren told KUSA-TV. "Who knows what was going on in this young man's life."

UPDATE: SEVERAL PEOPLE SHOT AT COLORADO'S NEW LIFE CHURCH; UNCLEAR IF RELATED TO EARLIER KILLINGS ABOUT 70 MILES AWAY AT MISSIONARY TRAINING CENTER (more here)

UPDATE: Unclear?

APPARENT GUNMAN AND ONE VICTIM SHOT DEAD AT COLORADO'S NEW LIFE CHURCH; UNCLEAR IF INCIDENT WAS RELATED TO TWO EARLIER KILLINGS ABOUT 70 MILES AWAY AT A MISSIONARY CENTER

UPDATE: GUNMAN KILLED BY ARMED FEMALE CHURCH SECURITY STAFFER hat tip Malkin

Amid the horror, a glimmer of good news: The culture of self-defense may have saved untold lives.

The case for the second amendment

Comments

[SlimGuy]

H/t JamieWearingFool

Church shooting in Colo this morning 70 miles away, 4 shot at least no word on extent of injuries.

[SlimGuy]

DENVER, Colo. (Reuters) - At least four people were shot at a large Colorado evangelical church on Sunday -- the second shooting in a day linked to a religious community in the state.

Local media said four, or possibly more, people were shot outside or inside the New Life Church in Colorado Springs on Sunday afternoon. The condition of those shot was not immediately known, but police said they had a suspect in custody.

In an earlier incident, two people were killed and two were injured shortly after midnight when a gunman entered a training center for young missionaries in the Denver suburb of Arvada, about 70 miles away from Colorado Springs, police said.

It was not immediately known if the two shootings were connected. CNN reported that the description of the shooter was similar in both cases -- a white male wearing a dark hat and dark jacket.

[Timur]

Hmmmm white male, skull cap, beard.... I'm betting it AIN'T Santa Claus! IF the shooter does turn out to be a Moslem what do you want to bet that the Media will NOT refer to him by his Moslem name?

I wondered about that, wiil the MSM keep it quiet if it turns out to be a ROPer. I recall the sudden jihad incidences a few years back never made it beyond these blogs.

[Yisrael Medad]

I am assuming that no skull-capped Jew would be wanting to sleep over in a church-related facility so that leaves...no, could it be another religionist of peace person?

Found via google on AP:

here

[...]
Harris said he saw the gunman, and it looked like he knew how to handle a weapon.

(emphasis is mine)

But still no background info on the murderer...

[TheAntiDhimmi]

In light of the news that has been coming out since the shootings, I sincerely hope the mainstream media picks up on and reports the fact that an armed volunteer stopped the idiot gunman from killing more. I do not know what it is about the liberals in our society that think we need to all become victims....
The armed volunteer security person should be praised as a hero.