At least five people are dead following a shooting Sunday at a Mormon church in Michigan, officials have announced.
Sept. 28 A gunman drove his truck into a Michigan church on Sunday before opening fire on the hundreds of congregants and setting the building ablaze, according to authorities, who said the suspect has been « neutralized » by police.
Hundreds of people were attending services Sunday morning at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, located about 50 miles north of Ann Arbor, when the gunman — identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford, a Marine veteran from Burton — drove a vehicle into the building at about 10:25 a.m. EDT and opened fire with an assault-type weapon, local police said.
Police initially said two people were killed and that the suspect was fatally shot by police in the back parking lot of the church.
Authorities Sunday night updated the death toll to five, including the gunman, though an unspecified number of people remain unaccounted for. It was earlier announced that eight people had been injured.
Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye told reporters in a press conference that they are « working tirelessly » throughout the night looking for additional bodies trapped in the wreckage of the church, which he described as a « total loss due to the fire.
