White House official claims gunman in Michigan attack ‘hated’ Mormons

A White House official claims that a former Marine “hated” Mormons at a church in Michigan, where at least four people were killed and eight were injured.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated on Monday morning on Fox News that the federal government is still looking into the attack from Sunday.

However, she stated that investigators are looking into potential hostility between the suspect and members of the largely regarded Mormon Church.

According to what I understand, the FBI director only knows for now that this person hated members of the Mormon faith, according to Leavitt.

FBI Director Kash Patel gave her a Monday briefing, according to Leavitt.

Before he died in a shootout with police, an ex-Marine drove his pickup truck into a church in Grand Blanc Township during a service, opened fire, and set the structure on fire.

According to officials, the suspect rammed his pickup into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ front doors on Sunday morning, killing hundreds of people inside.

Two bodies were shot to death, and two more bodies were discovered in the church’s rubble, which was later said to have been intentionally set on fire.

Late on Sunday, authorities warned that some victims were still unaccounted for and that more bodies may still be discovered as they looked through the building’s destroyed remains.

Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of Burton, a neighborhood resident, was identified as the suspect. Sanford, a veteran of the Iraq War, served in the Marines between 2004 and 2008. According to US military records, he was a Marine Corps member from 2004 to 2008.

Authorities said they would search the suspect’s home and phone, but they did not provide a possible explanation. The population of Flint’s Grand Blanc Township is about 40, 000, located 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Detroit.

Two children were killed and 17 people were hurt when a gunman opened fire through the stained glass windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one month prior to the violence in Michigan.