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"It seemed like it was me, the gunman and God," she said, her hands trembling as she recounted the shooting during a news conference.

Assam worked in Minneapolis as a police officer from 1993 to 1997 but was fired from the department for lying during an internal investigation, Minneapolis police Sgt. Jesse Garcia said Tuesday.

Sgt. John Delmonico, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, said police investigated a complaint that Assam swore at a bus driver while handling an incident on a city bus.

"In giving a statement about the incident, she was untruthful and she was fired," Delmonico said. Assam denied that she swore at the driver, but her actions were caught on tape, he said.

Assam's home phone number is unlisted and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Killer's family baffled
Also Monday, officials finished searching the home where Murray lived along with a brother, Christopher, 21. Murray's father, Ronald S. Murray, is chief executive of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center in Englewood.

In a search warrant affidavit, investigators said Matthew Murray attended a home-based computer school and worked at his computer for three to five hours a day for the past two years.

A neighbor, Cody Askeland, 19, said the brothers were home-schooled, describing the whole family as "very, very religious."

Christopher Murray studied for a semester at Colorado Christian University before transferring to Oral Roberts, said Ronald Rex, dean of admissions and marketing at Colorado Christian. Oral Roberts is a Christian university named after its evangelist founder.

Rex said Matthew Murray had been in contact with school officials this summer about attending the school but decided the school was too expensive.

Police said Murray's only previous brush with the law was a traffic ticket earlier this year.

His relatives said they were grief-stricken and baffled.

"We cannot understand why this has happened. We ask for prayer for the victims and their families during this time of grief," said Phil Abeyta, Murray's uncle, who read a statement from the family.

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