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The number of people killed during a shooting and fire at a Michigan church is now four, plus the shooter, with at least eight others wounded, one of them in critical condition.
Police said the shooter drove a vehicle into the church building, opened fire, and was shot dead by officers. Grand Blanc Township officials indicated the attacker “rammed the vehicle through the front door” of the church, then got out of the vehicle and began shooting. A church service was taking place — “there were hundreds of people in the church” — at the time of the attack.
Police said Sunday evening the suspect was identified as former Marine Thomas Jacob Sanford.
The attacker, identified as a former Marine, also firebombed the church. That fire has been put out, but police fear that people were trapped by the flames and unable to exit the church.
As of now there has been no connection made between the attacker and the church.