A man led his vehicle through the entry doors of a church of Jesus Christ from the holy days of the last days and shot at least 10 people, killing one of them, the local police announced on Sunday.
The shooter came out of his vehicle by pulling an assault weapon, said Grand Blanc’s police chief William Renye. He added that hundreds of people were in the church, which was burnt down when the vehicle broke it.
The smoke died from the building while the firefighters sprayed the fire with water while the fire trucks and the emergency vehicles were parked nearby, according to social networks.
Authorities think they will find additional victims in the ruins, said the chief.
Police did not immediately release the name of the suspect, who died on the scene in an exchange of shots with two officers who rushed to the church, said the chief.
Renye described him as a 40 -year -old man from Burton, Michigan.
More details were not immediately available.
“My heart breaks for the Grand Blanc community,” said the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, in a statement published on social networks. “Violence everywhere in a place of worship is unacceptable,” she said.
National officials, including US prosecutor Pam Bondi and US President Donald Trump, said they had been informed of the shooting.
“Such violence in a place of worship is heartbreaking and frightening,” said leaping on X.
Trump in a declaration on Truth Social said that the shooting “seems to be another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America” and said the FBI was on the scene.
“This epidemic of violence in our country must end, immediately!”
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Holy Days is known in an informal way as Mormons.
Grand Blanc, a city of 7,700 inhabitants, is around 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Detroit.
