(CNN) — Thomas Jacob Sanford was known around his small Michigan suburb for his distinctive pickup truck, which he often drove with two American flags flying from the bed behind him.

In recent weeks, locals said, Sanford began behaving oddly – asking a local political candidate questions about his positions on guns and Mormons, and then nearly running over a longtime friend with the truck in a seeming joke.

Then, on Sunday morning, as neighbors took in the first reports of a mass shooting at a nearby LDS church, they saw the photos: Sanford’s GMC Sierra truck, rammed into the front of the burning building.

Police say Sanford, 40, crashed his truck into the front of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc before shooting at congregants with an assault rifle and se

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