NBC News is reporting that the deranged person responsible for the shooting and fire at a Michigan Mormon church yesterday was Thomas Jacob Sanford:
The person accused in a fatal shooting and fire Sunday at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, is a 40-year-old area man with a military background.
Thomas Jacob Sanford is from Burton, a city of nearly 30,000 people roughly 6 miles from Grand Blanc Township. Both are suburbs of Flint.
Police said the attacker rammed the church with a vehicle, got out and opened fire with an assault rifle. James Deir, special agent in charge of the Detroit Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said he also appears to have used an accelerant to start a fire.
At least four people were killed in the attack, two of whom were shot, and eight were injured.
Officers killed Sanford in a parking lot behind the church, police said.
The FBI’s special agent in charge of the bureau's Detroit field office, Reuben Coleman, said Sunday night that the bureau is looking for a motive. [snip]
Sanford joined the Marine Corps in 2004, according to Marine records, and held the titles of organizational automotive mechanic and vehicle recovery operator.
In 2007, he started a nearly seven-month deployment under Operation Iraqi Freedom and left the corps a few months later, the records show.
Sanford achieved the rank of sergeant and had his last duty assignment at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina before he left the Marines in June 2008, according to the records.
He was awarded the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal, the records show.
An image uploaded to Facebook in 2019 shows Thomas Jacob Sanford wearing a “TRUMP 2020” shirt...
The common denominator of these assassinations and attacks, of course, is mental illness and social isolation. None of this information has stopped the ever- raging Malignant Fascist from turning this awful incident into an "attack on Christians" before more facts are known. Just what we expect from the inciter- in- chief. But we know that, at least in 2020, Sanford was a supporter of the Malignant Fascist, something that we seriously doubt will be mentioned by the FBI or local authorities (or much of the media).
This mass killing was most likely "revenge" for Charlie Kirk's death at the hands of a Mormon kid. But since Sanford wasn't a transgender Muslim Leftist extremist, the story will be buried more quickly than the victims of this recurring tragedy.
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