Overview
- Footage released Friday shows officers sprinting toward the armed suspect, shouting commands and firing multiple rounds, with the man shot dead about eight minutes after the attack began.
- Police say the assailant rammed a pickup into the Grand Blanc meetinghouse, opened fire on worshippers and set the building on fire, killing four people and injuring eight.
- FBI Detroit’s acting special agent in charge said investigators are probing motive as they classify the assault as targeted violence.
- Records identify the suspect as a 40-year-old Marine Corps veteran with prior arrests, and acquaintances and local figures described his pronounced hostility toward Latter-day Saints linked to a past relationship.
- LDS leaders reported heightened security at the church’s general conference as interfaith groups offered support, and the Big 12 fined the University of Colorado $50,000 over anti‑Mormon chants at a game the day before the attack.