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When gunfire rang out at New Life Church, Don Couchman first thought the youth group was performing another crazy skit. "But within seconds, I realized it was real," said Couchman, 61, a New Life elder.

Couchman was in a campus chapel when Matthew Murray, 24, launched his assault on the Colorado Springs megachurch. "All of a sudden, four teenage girls were rushed into the chapel," Couchman said. "One was screaming, 'Don't shoot me! Don't shoot me! I don't want to die!'"

Murray's Dec. 9 attacks on New Life, and on a Youth With a Mission training center in Arvada, Colo., claimed four lives. Going forward, even families not directly affected will need care: When Couchman told his own family about a New Life church-wide meeting set for Dec. 12, his grandson Noah, 5, asked, "Will the man with the gun be there?"

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