Two Separate Attacks Leave Four Dead in Colorado
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gunman killed two staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early yesterday after being told he couldn’t spend the night. About 12 hours later, a gunman fatally shot a person at a megachurch in Colorado Springs before a guard killed him, police said.
The gunman at the New Life Church was shot and killed by a security guard after entering the church’s main foyer with high-powered rifle shortly before 1 p.m. and opening fire, Colorado Springs Police Chief Richard Myers said. It was not immediately known whether the Colorado Springs shooting was related to the crime in Arvada, a Denver suburb about 65 miles to the north. Authorities in Arvada said no one had been captured in the shootings there. A church member died of wounds inflicted by the gunman, Senior Pastor Brady Boyd said. At least two others were shot and wounded at the church, where hundreds of people were milling about and parents were picking up their children from the nursery.
The mission training program has a small office at the church’s World Prayer Center on the New Life campus. The church’s 11 a.m. service had just ended, and hundreds of people were milling about when the gunman opened fire.
