Michigan church shooting: Father of gunman breaks silence after Iraq-vet shooter kills four in Mormon church

Thomas Jacob Sanford

Thomas Jacob Sanford’s father has spoken out after police said his son killed four people and injured eight in a shooting at a Michigan church.

Sanford rammed his truck into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township Sunday morning and fired at hundreds of worshippers, police said. Sanford, a former Marine who was deployed to Iraq in 2007, also set fire to the building before police killed him in a parking lot behind the church, according to authorities.

On Monday, Sanford’s father, Thomas told the Detroit Free Press that he felt “terrible about all the families that have been hurt and they’re under the same crap that I’m going u

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