Citing police sources, CNN TV announced that on Sunday morning The armed attacker rammed the entrance to the church with the car Mormons during the service, he opened fire from firearms, and then set fire to the building. There may still be more victims in the destroyed temple.
The perpetrator turned out to be 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford from the nearby city of Burton, who died of police officers summoned to the crime.
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– Four people were killed in the morning attack – said the Police Commander of the Grand Blanc Commune, William Renye on Sunday evening.
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– I would like to appreciate Heroism not only of lifeguards, but also people present in the church. They shielded children, who also stayed in the temple and moved them to a safe place – added Renye, emphasizing that hundreds of people, including children, participated in the Sunday service. The building was completely destroyed.
Grand Blanc is a suburb of Flint, Michigan, about an hour north of Detroit. Reuben Coleman, acting as a special agent managing the FBI field office in Detroit, informed that The FBI is investigating, treating the incident as “an act of targeted violence”.
– Such an act of violence cannot take place in our state or nowhere else in the country. The FBI is obliged to determine the facts, circumstances and motives of this tragedy – emphasized Coleman.
The shooting in Michigan was The second of this weekend recorded in the USA. In the first, in Southport, North Carolina, 40-year-old Nigel Max Edge shot three people, and wounded five others in a crowded coastal bar. The police described the attack as “fully planned”. The attacker was detained by the Coast Guard on the charge of making three first -degree murders and five attempts to murder.
According to Gun Violence Archive From January to September 2025, 6075 people were killed as a result of crimes using firearms in the USA. The mass shooting is defined as an incident in which at least four people, excluding the perpetrator, were injured or killed.
