Pipebomb outside NAACP

Murphy was first charged by Criminal Complaint on February 20, 2015. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on February 23, 2015. He pled guilty today, August 3, 2015. According to the stipulated facts contained in the plea agreement, on January 6, 2015 at 10:48 a.m., the Colorado Springs Police Department (“CSPD”) received a 911 call about an explosion that occurred at 603 S. El Paso Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The caller said someone tried to blow up the building by putting stick of dynamite next to a container of gasoline and lighting it. He, along with others, reportedly heard a huge explosion inside the building. When one of the building’s occupants went outside, he saw a gas can sitting next to the building where the explosion happened.