The man suspected of ramming his truck into a Mormon church in Michigan before entering, shooting, and killing multiple people has been identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, the New York Post reported on Sunday afternoon.
Sanford is a 40-year-old former Marine who served in the Iraq War from 2004 to 2008, according to posts from his mom’s Facebook account.
He is a resident of Burton, Michigan, which is about eight miles from Grand Blanc Township, where the attack happened.
“Social media accounts believed to be connected to Sanford show he’s a family man, with a wife and young son,” the Post reported.
Sanford is suspected of crashing his Chevy Silverado into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints while hundreds of people were there for Sunday service. He then opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, killing two people and injuring at least nine others.
The attack on the LDS church comes a month after the deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. President Trump has said he wants his second administration to focus more on anti-Christian attacks and bias; here is what he said during a speech at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. earlier this month:
“There is a tremendous anti-Christian bias. We don’t hear about it. You hear about anti-Semitic, but you don’t hear about anti-Christian. They have a strong anti-Christian bias, but we’re ending that rapidly, I will tell you. We’re in a much different world today than we were one year ago.”
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