Lisa Louis — the daughter of victim Craig Hayden — penned a heart-wrenching letter revealing how crazed gunman Thomas Jacob Sanford approached her as she cowered over her father’s body in the thick of the chaos he caused at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Sunday.
The daughter of a man killed in the grisly mass shooting at a Michigan Mormon church said she looked directly into the eyes of the gunman — and that she forgave him on the spot and was spared her life.
Lisa Louis — the daughter of victim Craig Hayden — penned a heart-wrenching letter revealing how crazed gunman Thomas Jacob Sanford approached her as she cowered over her father’s body in the thick of the chaos he caused at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Sunday.
“When he came over to me I felt very calm, peaceful even as I kneeled next to my dad, my hands still on Dad,” Louis wrote in a letter her sister posted to Facebook Monday.
“It felt like a long time I stared into his eyes,” she added. “The only way I can describe it is I saw into his soul. I never took my eyes off his eyes, something happened, I saw pain, he felt lost.
