One more shooting in United States. A month after the attack in Minneapolis, in which two children died, this time it is one Mormone Church in Michigan to have been targeted. The massacre was touched, because there were hundreds of people who were witnessing mass. The provisional balance is two dead and eight injured, including children. According to the first information, the killer would be the forty -year -old Thomas Jacob Sanford, a veteran of the Marines in service in Iraq from 2004 to 2008.
What happened
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The attacker, a 40 -year -old man who lived in a nearby city, launched himself with his car against the church and then started shooting with an assault rifle. He was neutralized shortly after by the police, but he still managed to set a fire to the building.
The images taken by some residents and published on social networks showed, in fact, dense columns of smoke raising themselves from the church of Grand Blanc, 80 kilometers from Detroit. The firefighters managed to turn off the flames after about an hour, however the police fear that the fire may have caused other victims. People who were trapped in the church and killed by the fire or wounds to death by the aggressor. It is not clear what the motive of the attack is nor – at the moment – the identity of the killer is known.
Trump’s words
For Donald Trump it is “yet another attack aimed at Christians in the United States”, after Minneapolis. “This epidemic of violence in our country must end immediately!” Said the president in a post on Truth. Michigan’s governor, Democratic Gretchen Whitmer, condemned violence “everywhere but above all in a place of worship. While the secretary in the interior Pam Bondi defined the attack in church “excruciating and chilling”. Reactions also from the director of the FBI, Kash Patel: «It is a cowardly and criminal act. Our prayers are with the victims and their families during this terrible tragedy ».
Who was the killer
The man who killed at least two people and wounds nine more in a Mormon church in Michigan is the forty -year -old Thomas Jacob Sanford and is a veteran of the Marines, according to his mother’s Facebook page. He served in Iraq from 2004 to 2008.
Roomed Dice Security to places of worship
After the sparrowing in a Mormon church in Michigan New York and Los Angeles they strengthened safety in front of places of worship. The CNN reports. According to the authorities there is no specific alarm but it is “an excess of caution”.
Three artisan explosive devices were found
In the Church of Michigan attached today by a man who opened fire against the faithful Mormons and then set a fire, at least three artisan explosive devices were found. Law enforcement sources mentioned by NBCnews make it known.
Other shootings over the weekend
The attack on the Church is not the only episode of weekend violence in the United States. Three people died and at least six others were injured after a man opened fire from a boat in a crowded bar on the Southport promenade, in North Carolina, Saturday evening. The attacker then fled the boat to the intracoastal waterway and half an hour later he was arrested by the American coast guard 19 kilometers away. Also in this case the motive is not known: Southport is a small community of 4,000 inhabitants, where this kind of attacks is not on the agenda. In the south of Texas two people were killed and five injuries in a shooting in a casino Sunday at dawn. And in New Orleans, a woman was killed and three other people were injured in a shooting in the famous Bourbon Street of the city.
