
Police in Michigan released a video showing intense moments when they were facing Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40 years old, who was charged with his truck intervened in the Michigan Chapel, launched fire on hundreds of believers and founded the Church, resulting in four deaths and eight injuries last week.
According to the police, he was fatally shot in the parking lot in front of the building about eight minutes after the start of the attack.
The shots, which are listed during the Friday press conference, depict two officers who develop towards the suspect in the Church of Jesus Christ the parking lot of the last days of the Saints on the Grand Blanc. As he is approaching, they command him to drop the weapon and scream “shoot him” and “returned” before he released at least eight laps. At the end of the short video, the suspicious body is visible on Earth.
US military records suggest that Sanford was a veteran from Iraq, which served in the maritime choir between 2004 and 2008. During Monday’s Police Press Conference and other officials shared several other details about Sanford’s background. According to Reuters, Reuben Coleman, acting special agent-responsible for the FBI office Detroit Field Office, he mentioned: “FBI investigates it as an act of targeted violence and we continue to work to determine the motif.” ”
Township chief William Renye mentioned that Sanford had previous arrests, but did not provide further information.
Sanford ‘hated people from Mormon faith’
Press Secretary of the White House Karoline Leitt said on Monday that Sanford Hate Mormons. She said “Fox & Friends”, “Based on my interviews with the FBI director, they now know that he was an individual who hated the people of Mormon faith, and they are trying to understand how it was foreseen, how much planning went, whether he left the note.
Detroit Free Press reported that Burton Kris’s candidate Johns said he had spoken to Sanford about a week earlier, and that Sanford had mentioned members of the Church of Jesus Christ as “Antichrist”.
Johns noted the article that they had not spoken about politics, but noticed the sign of the campaign for President Donald Trump on Sanford’s fence. The Maps Maps Google image also shows the Trump character at the address listed online as a Sanford affiliation.
According to The New York Times, Sanford’s hostility to the Church of Jesus Christ was rooted in a break -up with a devoted girlfriend Mormon more than ten years ago, as two long -time friends told and others who met him.
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