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Below is some more insight into why MM was denied a spot on the mission team to Bosnia in December 2002. Yes, that's five years now he carried a murderous grudge. Five years to the month. I can't help but wonder if it was 5 years to the day as well.

In the future, whenever a Christian mission group says "no" to some nutcase, I'll bet they'll wonder if they're painting a target on their foreheads.

This is from http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/11/roommate-murray-booted-from-center-for-bizarre/

Richard Werner, 34, told CNN that he was working at the Arvada center in 2002, when Murray was there.

Program leaders broke the news to Murray in December 2002 that they weren't going to let him join a planned mission trip to Bosnia, he said.

That was five days after Murray performed a pair of dark rock songs by Linkin Park and Marilyn Manson during a concert at the mission that made fellow workers "pretty scared," Werner said.

The Linkin Park song was One Step Closer, which includes the lyrics "Cuz i'm one step closer to the edge and i'm about to break!"

Months of strange behavior by Murray preceded that concert, according to Werner.

Werner, who now lives in Balneario Camborius, Brazil, said he occupied a bunk near Murray's and that Murray would roll around in bed and make noises.

He asked his roommate about it, Werner said.

"He would say, 'Don't worry, I'm just talking to the voices.' He'd say, 'Don't worry, Richard. You're a nice guy. The voices like you.'"

Werner told CNN he instantly suspected Murray when he heard the news of Sunday's shootings.

"I turned to my wife and I said, 'I know who did it. It's Matthew.' It was so obvious."

Earlier Monday, an affidavit indicated that the director of YWAM in Arvada had received hate mail from Murray.