New insight has emerged into what may have driven a madman to ram his truck into a Mormon Church, open fire on parishioners, and then set it ablaze on Sunday morning.

Thomas Sanford, who murdered five churchgoers before police shot him dead, once dated a woman in Utah who is a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints, which a report says he characterized as the “antichrist” as recently as last week.

That is according to Kris Johns, a city council candidate in Burton, Michigan, who told the Detroit Free Press that Sanford abruptly went on an anti-Mormon tirade after he knocked on his door and conversed with him on Sept. 22.

Johns said there was “no mention of anything right or left, blue or red” in their 20-minute chat, but that the talk took a “very sharp turn” after Sanford mentioned

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