US EditionWoman who was confronted by Michigan church gunman says she instantly forgave him for killing dad
The shooter, a military veteran with a history of personal grievances, killed four and injured eight before police fatally shot him, with over $52,000 raised for victims' families.
- On September 28, 2025, a gunman attacked a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, killing four people and injuring eight others before dying in a shootout with police.
- This act of targeted violence occurred during a time of worship, highlighting the vulnerability of sanctuaries.
- The past decades have seen numerous attacks on places of worship, each violating the safety and peace these communities represent.
- Calls for protecting sanctuaries emphasize the need for places where violence is not tolerated and communities can gather in safety.
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Daughters of Man Killed in Michigan Church Shooting Forgive Gunman
GRAND BLANC, Mich.—Holding her dying father, who had just been shot inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lisa Louis looked directly into the shooter’s face, according to a letter posted to Facebook by her sister on Sept. 29. Moments before, 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford allegedly crashed his pickup truck into the Grand Blanc Township Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, opened fire, and set the church ablaze. Ten pe…
The Sacred Trust Shattered by Church Shootings
Download Print-Friendly Version On a winter night in Montgomery, 1956, a young pastor stood at a pulpit preaching nonviolence while the movement’s enemies slipped a bomb onto his home’s front porch. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. learned his home had been bombed—with his wife Coretta and their infant daughter inside—he rushed home to find an angry, armed crowd gathering in the street. King raised his hands and pleaded for peace: “We must meet v…
Thomas Jacob Sanford's Anti-Liberal Stance And Pro-Trump Ideology Exposed - US Daily Report
Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, a resident of Burton, Michigan, a supporter of Donald Trump, a Christian and Iraq veteran, has been identified by authorities as the gunman in the deadly attack on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township. The horrific assault began around 10:25 a.m., when Sanford drove his pickup truck, which was heavily decorated with American flags, through a wall of the church while hundreds of people …
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The Gateway PunditMotives Behind Mormon Church Shooter Becoming Clearer - May Have All Started Over a Woman
The tragic shooting inside a Michigan Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is already being politicized. The left desperately needs this tragedy to be political because of the violence […] The post Motives Behind Mormon Church Shooter Becoming Clearer - May Have All Started Over a Woman appeared first on The Western Journal.
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