Four people were killed and eight others were injured on Sunday morning Shooting At a Mormon Church in Michigan, officials announced on Sunday evening.
Police chief of Grand Blanc Township, William Rene had earlier said that two people were killed in an attack at the Church of Jesus Christ of-De Sents Chappell. But Press conference on Sunday eveningRain said that two additional bodies were found in the church.
The Associated Press Informed Eight others were injured.
The FBI special agent in -charge Ruben Coleman said on Sunday evening that the bureau has taken an edge over the investigation and the incident is being investigated as a “Act of target violence”.
President Trump Post On his truth social stage before Sunday Called the event “A targeted attack on Christians.”
Officials identified the suspect with 40 -year -old Thomas Jacob Sanford’s Burton, Mich officials. Officials said Sanford threw his vehicle into the church, opened fire on the Congress and set the building on fire.
James Dior, alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosive (ATF) with the Bureau of the Detroit Office, stated at the press conference that investigators believe that Sanford used gasoline to set the building on fire. Deir said that the authorities found “suspected explosive equipment” at the scene, but it is not clear whether they were used to set the church.
Rain said Sanford was killed by the police in the parking behind the church within eight minutes of the first 911 call. But Correspondent conference first SundayThe police chief said that the first respondents at the scene and adults in the church shifted children with bullets.
Rain said that there are some others for other people, and that the authorities are “tirelessly trying to find additional bodies.”
“The entire church is not cleaned because it is a total loss due to the fire,” Rain said. “So these first respondents are still in recovery mode, they are trying to fight all the debris from the fire.”
Michigan State Police spokesman Lieutenant Kim Veter also said on Sunday that other churches in the area have received bomb threats, and the authorities have cleared those places.
