Shooting Spree in Colorado

[sciencegirl]

Another shooting spree in Colorado being reported by Fox News. Believed to be at some missionary camp or something like that. 4 people have been shot and the shooter is still on the lose.

No link available that I can find.

[dojewo]

Another shooting spree in Colorado being reported by Fox News. Believed to be at some missionary camp or something like that. 4 people have been shot and the shooter is still on the lose.

No link available that I can find.WTH is the matter with people, this is so sad.

[Audie]

http://www.9news.com/news/top-article.aspx?storyid=82457

[sciencegirl]

WTH is the matter with people, this is so sad.

I think a lot of times; it's a copycat killer. But, with the holidays upon us; there are so many people that are depressed during this time; they act out violently. Which I will never understand.

Fox is now reporting that so far; there are two dead. :1222423:

[dojewo]

I think a lot of times; it's a copycat killer. But, with the holidays upon us; there are so many people that are depressed during this time; they act out violently. Which I will never understand.

Fox is now reporting that so far; there are two dead. :1222423:This is just terrible:1222423:For all

[dojewo]

http://www.9news.com/news/top-article.aspx?storyid=82457
I would like to know how he just walked into the dorm?

[sciencegirl]

I would like to know how he just walked into the dorm?

This is just a rumor per Fox; but it may have been one of their own. Not sure; so don't quote me.

[dojewo]

This is just a rumor per Fox; but it may have been one of their own. Not sure; so don't quote me.It said in the article that the gunman walked into the dorm, but yes you are right is could have been one of their own.

[LiveLaughLuv]

WTH is the matter with people, this is so sad.

I've asked that question too.

Do you notice how these happenings are always around holiday time.

So sad....:1222423:

[Grande]

Well that certainly puts a hamper on what had started out to be a great day. My thoughts are with everyone involved.

[Grande]

Gunman Kills 2 in Missionary Center

By GEORGE MERRITT
The Associated Press

ARVADA, Colo. - 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.

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 in their mid-20s died, and two men ages 22 and 23 were wounded, Medina said. One of the injured men was in critical condition, said Paul Filidis, a Colorado Springs-based spokesman with Youth With a Mission.

All four of the victims were staff members, Filidis said.

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

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

Cheril Morrison, wife of chapel pastor George Morrison, said the man who was killed had just hung up Christmas lights at her home and described the young woman who was killed as "an amazingly beautiful person."

She declined to name either victim.

Witnesses told police that the gunman was a 20-year-old white male, wearing a dark jacket and skull cap. 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."

Police with several dogs searched the area through the night, and residents of nearby homes were notified by reverse 911 to be on the lookout. Medina said residents were asked to look out their windows to see if the snow had been disturbed during the night. About 4 inches of snow had fallen in the area in the past day.

Mimi Martin, who lives near the center, said she received the warning call at about 9 a.m. warning neighbors to keep their doors and windows locked.

"Why would anybody want to hurt those kids?" Martin said. "I just pray for their families."

People bundled up against freezing cold attended Sunday services at the sanctuary, about 300 yards from the dormitory on the campus of the Faith Bible Chapel. Police kept tight security on the chapel grounds.

"We never doubted that we would have a service," said Cheril Morrison. "We felt like our church faithful all needed to be together."

Darv Smith, director of a Youth With a Mission center in Boulder, said people ranging from their late teens to their 70s undergo a 12-week discipleship course that prepares them to be missionaries.

He said the center trains about 300 people a year.

Filidis said staffers are usually former missionaries themselves and that the "mercy ministries" performed by trainees include orphanage work. He said he didn't know where the group being trained in Arvada was going to be sent.

Youth With a Mission was started in 1960 and now has 1,100 locations with 16,000 full-time staff, Smith said. The Arvada center was founded in 1984.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-12092007-1453541.html

[sciencegirl]

More shootings now in Colorado Springs. 5-8 possibly shot. One gunman is down. A church was targeted. They don't think this is related to the first shooting this morning at the missionary. All churchs are on lock down. A car has been identified with an IED in it. This being reported by Fox. Appears to be planned killing as the shooters are wearing bullet proof vests.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316263,00.html