Multiple Victims After Shooting at Michigan Church, Church on Fire, Shooter Down

[Tall Timbers]

An active shooter has attacked a Michigan church and set it on fire, according to multiple reports.

The shooter is down but the building is on fire, according to a post from the Grand Grand Blanc Township Police Department.

“There’s has been an active shooter at the church of Latter Day Saints on McCandlish Rd. There are multiple victims and the shooter is down. There is NO threat to the public at this time.

The church is actively on fire.

Multiple Victims After Shooting at Michigan Church, Church on Fire, Shooter Down

Active shooter incident at Michigan church, multiple victims, and the building is on fire.

townhall.com

The useful idiots who perpetrate these crimes don't know the difference between Christian churches and the many cults that practice under a near-christian banner... so everyone is fair game.

 

[Tall Timbers]

40-Year-Old Man Drove into Michigan Church, Opened Fire, Was Shot Dead by Officers​

During a Sunday afternoon press conference, police said the Michigan church attacker drove a vehicle into the church building, opened fire, and was shot dead by officers.

Breitbart News had reported that the shooter was down and that the church — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc — was ablaze.

During the press conference, Grand Blanc Township police indicated the attacker “rammed the vehicle through the front door” of the church, then got out of the vehicle and began shooting. A church service was taking place — “there were hundreds of people in the church” — at the time of the attack.

Ten people were injured in the shooting, and one of the injured persons is now deceased.

Police: Shooter Drove into Michigan Church, Was Killed by Officers

Police said the Grand Blanc Township church attacker drove into the church building, opened fire, and was shot dead by officers.

www.breitbart.com

 

[Baby Yoda]

Gunman rammed a vehicle through front of a church during a large service and began shooting, then set a fire. There may have been people trapped upstairs in the fire.

More here. Sigh.

 

[Baby Yoda]

Another source.

 

[RonJohnSilver]

At least one dead, more likely once they go through the rubble. It's sad whenever anyone targets law abiding citizens for whatever reason. This is more so because it is a Mormon church and, while they are likely decent citizens, they are not believers or as they like to say, "we worship the same God." No, according to their own literature, they do not worship the Jesus of the Bible. So, the dead in this incident are likely not now in the presence of the real Jesus.

 

[mattfivefour]

Reports are stating that the truck was bearing American flags. I pray this was not some crackpot self-proclaimed MAGA patriot.

 

[dwb]

Reports are stating that the truck was bearing American flags. I pray this was not some crackpot self-proclaimed MAGA patriot.

I can think of two groups that would target Christians and wouldn't think either would display American flags. Could be false info to deflect blame from the lefties.

 

[mattfivefour]

I hope so.

 

[Batman]

Genesis 6:11.......VERY hard to watch this play out across our country and the entire globe for that matter.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Reports are stating that the truck was bearing American flags. I pray this was not some crackpot self-proclaimed MAGA patriot.

If anything it would be a left lunatic wanting the world to think he's MAGA.

 

[Amethyst]

Trump made a statement and at the end said
“This epidemic of violence must end in our country! “

it’s interesting he uses the word epidemic.

Sounds like scripture….

 

[Amethyst]

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[dwb]

So the shooter had a conversation with a political candidate and was asking about the LDS's. The questions were standard "anti LDS" talking points along with calling then the AC.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mormon-sanford-michigan/2025/09/29/id/1228320/

 

[Batman]

I suspect the murderer arsonist scumbag has a major beef with the LDS even if he is the cause/problem. Lots of people like to group LDS, JWs, etc. under the Christian umbrella so that angle of hating church (and not LDS) will likely get play time. The cruelty of being a murderous shooter is TERRIBLE but being a human burner seems like a whole new level of evil and hate.

 

[dwb]

Conflicting stories from the FBI. It's disturbing to hear Kash Patel promise to release the Epstein list, and then later say there was no Epstein list. In this case there is evidence the shooter hated the LDS's, yet the FBI can't determine a motive. Then they tell Karoline Leavitt the shooter hated the LDS church.

The FBI has conducted more than 100 interviews as it continues to investigate Sunday's deadly shooting, the agency said Monday.
Reuben Coleman, the acting special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit Field Office, said that investigators were still trying to determine a motive for the attack.

Michigan church shooting investigation: FBI searching for motive after Thomas Jacob Sanford's attack

The FBI is trying to determine why Thomas Jacob Sanford attacked The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in Michigan on Sunday, killing four. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that, "this was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith."

www.foxnews.com

and then on the same page/website...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt provided an update on the FBI investigation into the shooting and fire at a Michigan Mormon church on Sunday.
"Based on my conversations with the FBI director, all they know right now is this was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith, and they are trying to understand more about this, how premeditated it was, how much planning went into it, whether he left a note. All of those questions have yet to be answered, but certainly will be answered by the FBI," Leavitt told "Fox & Friends" on Monday after speaking with FBI Director Kash Patel.

 

[dwb]

The members of the Mormon church that was attacked have raised more than $150,000 for the family of the attacker. My first thought was that money would be of better use to re-build the church, but then I thought what a great gesture of grace and forgiveness.

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have collectively raised more than $150,000 for the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the shooter who killed four people in an attack on a church in Michigan.

The GiveSendGo campaign, as of Wednesday morning, has reached at least $152,000. On Sunday, Sanford opened fire at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township before setting the property ablaze.

"One of the families that suffered a terrible loss on that day was the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the shooter. Sanford leaves behind a wife and children who must be grieving," wrote David Butler, the organizer of the fundraising effort.

Mormon church members raise more than $150,000 for Michigan shooter's family

 

[RonJohnSilver]

Shows that even unbelievers can be generous.

 

[Cheeky200386]

Shows that even unbelievers can be generous.

Sadly, unbelievers often put Christians to shame in their kindness and generosity. I hear this complaint often from my clients, who struggle to find Christian Fellowship at church.