More details emerge about suspect in Michigan church shooting
- Thomas Jacob Sanford, a former U.S. Marine, is suspected of fatally shooting four people and injuring eight at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, on Sunday.
- Sanford reportedly slammed his truck into the church and set the building ablaze with an accelerant before being killed at the scene.
- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that investigators believe Sanford “hated people of the Mormon faith,” though the motive is not yet publicly confirmed.
- President Donald Trump described the incident as a “targeted attack on Christians,” and Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a task force to safeguard places of worship.
- Sanford, 40, served in the Marine Corps from 2004 to 2008, including a deployment to Iraq, and was later a truck driver.