Officials said at least four people were killed after setting fire inside a gun of a gunman inside a Mormon Church at Midwestern US State of Michigan on Sunday.
Eight people have been injured, one of them in a critical condition, in a firing at the Church of Jesus Christ of the Grand Sants of Grand Blanc, in about 50 miles (80 km) in the north of Detroit.
“We are deeply grateful to so many people around the world about prayers and anxiety,” the church posted on X.
What do we know about the shooting of Michigan Mormon Church?
Police said the shooter first rotated his vehicle through the doors in front of the church before opening the fire with an assault rifle, and then set the building on fire. Hundreds of people were in the church at that time.
Eight minutes after the incident started, the attacker was killed by the police in the parking lot, Grand Blanc chief William Rari told a press conference.
The culprit has been identified as a 40 -year -old former American Marine from a nearby city of Burton.
Rerye stated that investigators would search for the shooter’s house and phone records to find a motif.
Trump says he has been ‘brief’
US President Donald Trump on Sunday condemned a shoot and fire at a Mormon Church in Michigan, which “another targeted attack on Christians”.
Trump wrote on his true social platform, “The suspect is dead, but there is still much. It seems to be another target attack on Christians in the United States.”
Edited by: dmytro hubenko