{"id":484780,"date":"2025-09-28T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/iraq-veteran-media-reveals-attackers-identity-in-michigan-church\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:00:03","slug":"iraq-veteran-media-reveals-attackers-identity-in-michigan-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/iraq-veteran-media-reveals-attackers-identity-in-michigan-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Veteran: Media Reveals Attacker's Identity in Michigan Church"},"content":{"rendered":"The attacker who this Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/566654-tirador-explosion-mormon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crashed<\/a> a vehicle against the doors of a Mormon church in the US state of Michigan and then opened fire on people has been identified as <strong>Thomas Jacob Sanford<\/strong>, a 40-year-old Iraq war veteran, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/28\/us-news\/iraq-war-veteran-thomas-sanford-idd-as-gunman-who-attacked-grand-blanc-lds-church-killing-2-and-setting-it-ablaze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> The New York Post.\n\nAccording to his mother's social media posts, the perpetrator of the attack was a U.S. Marine veteran and <strong>served in Iraq between 2004 and 2008<\/strong>. Police sources confirmed that Sanford, who died at the scene in a shootout with security forces, is the main suspect.\n\nFurthermore, it was reported that authorities found <strong>several improvised explosive devices<\/strong> at a church facility.\n\nThe attack occurred at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Genesee County. According to local police, <strong>two people have died<\/strong> and at least 10 were injured by gunfire. In addition, it is detailed that the shooter set fire to the building, causing a huge fire that destroyed almost the entire church.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/At least two people dead after shooting and fire at a Mormon church in Michigan\">http:\/\/At least two people dead after shooting and fire at a Mormon church in Michigan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attacker who this Sunday crashed a vehicle against the doors of a Mormon church in the US state of Michigan and then opened fire on people has been identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, a 40-year-old Iraq war veteran, reported The New York Post. According to his mother&#8217;s social media posts, the perpetrator of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":484781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40230],"class_list":{"0":"post-484780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-united-states"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/G19X74wbcAAb1tK.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/G19X74wbcAAb1tK.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}