Murder Spree in America continues

[Jimmy Higgins]

Live updates: Church attack leaves 2 dead, 8 injured; suspect killed in shooting

Two dead, multiple people injured in Michigan church shooting

www.nbcnews.com

2 dead, 8 or ao wounded, 1 critical. This time, a Mormon church is attacked. Attacker's truck had two US flags very notably flying from tge front of his truck's cab, a truck he slammed into the church before opening fire metaphorically and then literally.

Trump provided his typical wisdom aiming to get leftists murdered.

 

[Politesse]

NBC is saying that the attacker was an ex-Marine who served with distinction in Iraq, so the American flags on his truck are not much of a surprise. Thomas Jacob Sanford. About my age, has a wife and a 10 year old kid.

The president of the Mormon Church also died today as it happens, and earlier in the day the internet rumor mill was asserting that the shocking news of the shooting was what did him in, but it turns out he'd alreayd been dead a few hours before the shooting (he was 101, so death would not have been a surprising happenstance for him on any particular day).

 

[BH]

That is horrible

 

[ZiprHead]

Total five dead, including the shooter, so far.

The church itself was totally engulfed in the fire so there may still be more victims in the wreckage.

 

[Politesse]

Fucking horrific is what it is. The testimony of those who were in the church at the time sounds like war coverage.

from the Times:

Kristin Juarez, 54, thought the steeple had fallen down when she heard the boom. Then a member of the congregation was telling everyone to flee, and gunshots were ringing out.

She became separated from her husband, John, in the commotion, and hid in a bathroom, where she heard more bursts of gunfire from outside.

“I thought, ‘If I have to die, it’s OK,’” Ms. Juarez said. “I feel good about where I am. And then I heard my husband’s voice, and he was calling for me.”

John Juarez, 57, said he returned to the building after helping fellow congregants carry someone who had been shot outside. When he went back in, he saw another person lying wounded on the floor.

“I didn’t know what I could do for him,’’ Mr. Juarez said. “I couldn’t get him out on my own.’’

Searching for his wife, he called out her name and heard her respond. The couple left the building and took shelter in a ditch across the road.

As they passed the truck that had been driven into the church, he said, he saw that the driver’s side door was open.

The engine was still running, Mr. Juarez said.

The couple held hands as they spoke to a reporter on McCandlish Road near the meeting house. Mr. Juarez’s left sleeve was stained with dried blood.