GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI - As local and federal authorities continue to try to grasp what motivated a man to barrel into a Michigan church Sunday morning, spraying bullets and lighting it on fire in a deadly attack, some pieces of the man’s background are becoming more clear.

Law enforcement identified Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of Burton, as the man who rammed a four-door pickup into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township on Sunday morning.

The FBI is now leading the investigation and described Sanford’s actions as “targeted violence” that left four dead, eight injured, and possibly others unaccounted for in the burned-out church. 48

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The pickup Sanford used to ram into the church had two American flags planted in the truck’s back bed are

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