MICHIGAN (WWJ) — A woman who survived the deadly attack on a church in Michigan on Sunday says in a letter posted on social media that she looked the gunman in the eyes after he killed her father, and “I forgave him right there.”

In the letter shared Monday, the woman recounted the events of the shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, in which four people were killed. She said she needed to share what she went through for her dad and “for anyone who can set aside hate.”

“When he [the gunman] came over to me I felt very calm, peaceful even as I kneeled next to my dad, my hands still on dad,” she wrote. “It felt like a long time I stared into his eyes while answering his question.”

“The only way I can describe it is I saw into his soul. I never took my

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