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Jeanne Assam took aim and fired. The woman that stopped the Colorado shootings is a hero according to New Life's Senior Pastor Brady Boyd. Few will debate that point, except of course the woman that is credited with saving 'a hundred lives' with her quick thinking, her bravery and her steady aim. Boyd said Assam's actions saved the lives of 50 to 100 people.

Colorado Shootings Hero: Jeanne Assam Saved '100 Lives'

When asked by a reporter if she felt like a hero, Assam said, "I wasn't just going to wait for him to do further damage." "I give credit to God," she said. The 42-year old Church security guard poke Monday about killing Matthew Murray on Sunday as he went on a killing spree at the Colorado Springs church. The gunman had already killed four and wounded five others in two separate shootings when she took him out.


Murray was carrying two handguns, an assault rifle and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, said Sgt. Jeff Johnson of the Colorado Springs Police Department.

"I took cover. I identified myself. I engaged him. I took him down," the 42-year-old former law officer and volunteer church security guard said Monday at a news conference in the Colorado Springs police station.
"I just said, 'Holy Spirit, be with me.' I wasn't even shaking," Assam said. "I give the credit to God. I say this very humbly. God was with me."


Murray had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday. "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," police said.