Shooting victim remembered as 'beautiful, extraordinary lady'
CHISHOLM, Minnesota (AP) -- The body of Tiffany Johnson, one of four people killed in two shootings in Colorado, was returned to northern Minnesota, where she was remembered as a young woman well loved by friends and family.
Johnson, 26, was remembered at a funeral service Saturday. She was killed by a gunman who police said committed suicide after the second rampage.
She was working as a hospitality director at the Youth With a Mission training center in Arvada when she and another worker were killed by the gunman, a former student at the center.
Meanwhile, nearly 300 people came to support the family of the gunman, Matthew John
Murray, 24, at a private service Friday in Denver, the Rocky Mountain News reported.
About 900 mourners packed St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Chisholm for Johnson's service Saturday. A memorial service was held earlier in the week in Colorado.
"She always told me, 'Dad, you think you can control things, but you can't. The Lord controls things,' " her father, Tom Johnson, told mourners. "I'd like to ask all of you to -- instead of saying 'I love you' on the telephone to your children -- to look them in the eye and say 'I love you' -- because Tiff taught me that."
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