The person accused in a fatal shooting and fire Sunday at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township is a 40-year-old area man with a military background.
Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, is from Burton, a city of nearly 30,000 people roughly 6 miles from Grand Blanc Township. Both are suburbs of Flint. Officers killed Sanford in a parking lot behind the church, police said. The FBI’s special agent in charge for the bureau’s Detroit field office, Reuben Coleman, said Sunday night that the bureau is looking for a motive.
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Source: NBC News
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