US EditionWoman who was confronted by Michigan church gunman says she instantly forgave him for killing dad
Shooter Thomas Sanford, a military veteran with a personal grudge against Mormons, killed four worshipers and wounded eight before dying in a police shootout, officials said.
- Craig Hayden, 72, was killed while helping another worshipper escape gunfire in a church shooting in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, according to a family member.
- The shooter crashed his vehicle into the church, killed four people, and injured eight before being shot by law enforcement, authorities reported.
- Authorities confirmed the shooter, Thomas Jacob Sanford, was agitated prior to the attack after being denied a baptism for his son, causing shock in the community.
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expressed grief for the victims and called for an end to hatred, as articulated in a letter from Hayden's daughter.
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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 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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