At least 4 dead in shooting at Mormon church

At least four people were killed after a gunman opened fire inside a Mormon church in the midwestern US state of Michigan on Sunday, authorities said.

Eight people have been injured, one of them in a critical condition, in a shootout at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, some 50 miles (80 KM) north of Detroit.

“We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of prayers and concern from so many people around the world,” the church posted on X.

What do we know about the Michigan Mormon church shooting?

Police said the shooter first rammed his vehicle through the front doors of the church before opening fire with an assault rifle, and then set the building on fire. Hundreds of people were in the church at that time.

The attacker was killed by police in the parking lot eight minutes after the incident began, Grand Blanc Police Chief William Renye told a press conference.

The perpetrator has been identified as a 40-year-old former US Marine from the nearby town of Burton.

Renye said that investigators will search the shooter’s home and phone records to find a motive.

Trump says he’s been ‘briefed’

US President Donald Trump on Sunday denounced a shooting and fire at a Mormon church in Michigan as “another targeted attack on Christians.”

“The suspect is dead, but there is still a lot to learn. This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.