{"id":571,"date":"2007-12-10T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/10\/home-schooled-missionary-kills\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T18:50:25","slug":"home-schooled-missionary-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/home-schooled-missionary-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Schooled Missionary Student Kills Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.<br \/>\nADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray&#8217;s father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071210\/ap_on_re_us\/church_shootings;_ylt=Am9aUUMvASh9DFec1iDCa38DW7oF\">[source]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis is a strange story of a deranged person who was killed by an armed security guard working at the said church.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;It appears that the suspect had been kicked out of the program three years prior and during the past few weeks had sent different forms of hate mail to the program and-or its director,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>About 7,000 people were in and around the church the time of the shooting, Boyd said. Security had been beefed up after the shootings hours earlier in Arvada, he said. The church had a total of 15 to 20 volunteer security officers inside at the time of the attack, he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday. ADVERTISEMENT The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/home-schooled-missionary-kills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Schooled Missionary Student Kills Four<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147,2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-9d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}