On Sunday morning, September 28, 2025, the quiet town of Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, was shattered when a former U.S. Marine, forty-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford, turned his military training on a house of worship. Witnesses say Sanford drove his pickup truck, draped with two American flags, straight through the entrance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as congregants gathered inside. Emerging from the wreckage, he pulled out an assault rifle and began firing at the worshippers. Within minutes, the scene turned into a nightmarish combination of gunfire, fire, and panic.