Security guard has been fired from police department in Minneapolis
December 11, 2007 12:15 EST
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- The security guard being credited with shooting the gunman responsible for the killings at a church and missionary training center in Colorado had been fired as a police officer in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis police say Jeanne Assam worked for that city's department from 1993 to 1997, but was fired for lying during an internal investigation.
The president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis says police were investigating a complaint that Assam swore at a bus driver while she was handling an incident on a city bus. He says Assam denied that she swore at the driver, but her actions were caught on tape.
The gunman was shot at the site of the second shooting -- the New Life Church in Colorado Springs.