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Multiple People Dead: Man Opens Fire at a Michigan Church Then Sets It Ablaze | Crime Alert 6AM 09.29.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Climb Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, Breaking crime News. Now straight
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  Speaker 1: out to Nicole Parton for the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, we start off with breaking news after a deadly
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  Speaker 2: mass shooting at a church, Authorities in Michigan have identified
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  Speaker 2: forty year old Thomas Jacob Sandford from Burton, Michigan, as
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  Speaker 2: the man responsible for a tragic incident that left four
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  Speaker 2: people dead and eight others injured. The event occurred when
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  Speaker 2: Sandford drove a pickup truck into a church in central
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  Speaker 2: Michigan and opened fire. During a news conference on September
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, officials reported that one of the injured individuals
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  Speaker 2: is in critical condition, while seven others are stable. The
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  Speaker 2: violence seen unfolded at the Church of Jesus Christ of
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  Speaker 2: Latter day Saints in Grand Blank, a Flint suburb, around
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  Speaker 2: ten twenty five am on Sunday, when Sandford crashed his
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  Speaker 2: vehicle into the building. After exiting the truck, he unleashed
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  Speaker 2: several rounds from an assault rifle let those inside. This
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  Speaker 2: as stated by the Grand Blank Township police Chief, William Renee.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities also revealed that Sandford then used gasoline to ignite
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  Speaker 2: the church on fire.
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  Speaker 3: They have a couple updates for you. There is a
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  Speaker 3: couple additional bodies that we've discovered in the church, so
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  Speaker 3: that makes our total victim count up to four victims.
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  Speaker 3: As I said before, there has already been the suspect
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  Speaker 3: to his decease as well, so we have five deceased
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  Speaker 3: persons from this tragic incident.
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  Speaker 2: Sandford ultimately died after a gunfight with responding officers in
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  Speaker 2: the church's parking lot. The investigation is being spearheaded by
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  Speaker 2: the FBI, with Acting Special Agent in charge of the
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  Speaker 2: Detroit FILD Reuben Coleman, characterizing the incident as an act
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  Speaker 2: of targeted violence. However, he did not disclose any potential
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  Speaker 2: motives behind Sandford's attack. There were several hundred people in
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  Speaker 2: attendance that day, and now authority say the church is
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  Speaker 2: a complete loss. After the blaze, Coleman urged anyone with
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  Speaker 2: relevant information to come forward, directing all of them to
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  Speaker 2: call one eight hundred FBI Tips Burton. The suspect's hometown
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  Speaker 2: is located approximately eight miles north of Grand Blanc. Locally,
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  Speaker 2: Sanford was often referred to as Jake by friends and
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  Speaker 2: family members, as indicated by various records and news articles
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday night. Law enforcement was heavily present outside the
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  Speaker 2: man's residence. This, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.
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  Speaker 2: His mother's Facebook post suggests that he may have been
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  Speaker 2: a US Marine veteran, having served in Japan and Iraq
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  Speaker 2: after graduating from high school in two thousand and three.
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  Speaker 2: This according to a two thousand and seven article from
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  Speaker 2: the Clarkston News, Sandford appeared to enjoy outdoor activities, particularly
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  Speaker 2: hunting and fishing, as evidenced by photos on social media,
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  Speaker 2: in hoting photos of his girlfriend and mother. These images
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  Speaker 2: depict him in camouflage, often carrying guns and hunting deer
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  Speaker 2: and catching fish. Police say the motive behind this tragic
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  Speaker 2: incident has yet to be uncovered. The investigation is ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole, thank you more Private justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: And now to North Carolina. At least three people have
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  Speaker 2: lost their lives and eight more have been wounded following
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  Speaker 2: a shooting incident involving a gunman on a boat at
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  Speaker 2: a waterfront bar. The Southport Police Department reported they received
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  Speaker 2: emergency calls about shots fired with multiple injuries at the
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  Speaker 2: American Fish Company around nine thirty pm local time. According
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  Speaker 2: to police reports, a boat with a lone man traveling
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  Speaker 2: on the Cape Fear River stopped momentarily near the bar
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  Speaker 2: and opened fire from the water, resulting in the death
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  Speaker 2: of three people an injury at least eight others. The
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  Speaker 2: assailant then fled the scene, heading towards the Inner Coastal
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  Speaker 2: Waterway in the direction of Oak Island. The police issued
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  Speaker 2: a warning on Facebook regarding an active shooter in the
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  Speaker 2: Southport Yacht Basin, advising residents to stay indoors. About thirty
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  Speaker 2: minutes after the shooting, the US Coast Guard located the suspect,
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  Speaker 2: who was loading their boat at a public boat ramp.
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  Speaker 2: This according to a police news release, The suspect was
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  Speaker 2: taken into custody for questioning by the Oak Island Police Department.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities later named the suspect as Nigel Max Edge. In
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  Speaker 2: a press release, police announced that he had been arrested
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  Speaker 2: and charged with three counts of first degree murder, five
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  Speaker 2: counts of attempted first degree murder, and five counts of
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  Speaker 2: assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. The
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  Speaker 2: motive behind the shooting remains unclear.
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  Speaker 1: Donna Cloud, nineteen moves in with their dad Splendora, Texas
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  Speaker 1: as a northeast suburb of Houston. Their relationship is strained.
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  Speaker 1: They argue offen One night, she doesn't come home. Dad
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  Speaker 1: reports her missing, telling police his daughter left on a
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  Speaker 1: blind date with a guy she met online. Because later
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  Speaker 1: learn that's a lie and Donna's father actually told her
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  Speaker 1: to leave. After their last argument, two men pick up
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  Speaker 1: Donna from the dad's home. One says he drops Donna
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  Speaker 1: off safely at a hotel that evening. Donna's active online
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  Speaker 1: two days after her disappearance, but her phone pings for
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  Speaker 1: the last time in Houston's Westchase neighborhood. That's the southwest
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  Speaker 1: side of the city. Donna Cloud five to one, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ten pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. She's got
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  Speaker 1: a tattoo of a diamond on her right ring finger
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  Speaker 1: and the word faith tattooed on her right fore arm.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Donna Cloud, now missing eight years,
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  Speaker 1: called Montgomery County, Texas Sheriff's nine three six seven six
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace