LDS shooter: Iraq vet Thomas Sanford

[Tanuki]

(Apologies for NYPost source)
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/


"The deranged madman who killed at least two people and injured nine others at a Michigan Latter-day Saints church, torching the building and opening fire on fleeing congregants and their families, has been identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford, The Post can confirm.

Sanford, a US Marine veteran, according to his mom’s Facebook page, rammed his Chevy Silverado truck into the building before unleashing the assault on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, armed with a semi-automatic rifle."... (more)

[intrepidity]

1. Bet he was a raging leftist radical. nt

[Takket]

2. looks trans

[Coldwater]

11. There have been several claims he had a trump/Vance sign posted outside his house

but after a few false claims already this morning/afternoon I'm a bit suspicious until I actually see the sign.

[Blue Full Moon]

36. Pics

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220681620#post31

[SergeStorms]

34. We won't know for sure....

until the paint dries on the shell casings Kash Patel is supplying to the media.

[Silent Type]

3. The rush to blame it on politics and one side. Yet the guy is probably like most of these shooters-- someone who needed

mental health diagnosis and treatment, though not in his 20s like most shooters since Oswald.

[Crunchy Frog]

19. You fail to understand that this is defensive on our part because the entire machinery of the current US government

is trying to paint this and other similar events as some vast left wing terrorist conspiracy. And they have stated their intent to go after any individual or group that they can paint as "supporting left wing violence". And they mean us. So yes, we're going to point it out when these perpetrators of violence don't fit the profile or the narrative that they're pushing.

[Silent Type]

23. It's been going on for years before trump. Besides, we don't have to be like GOPers.

[Liberal In Texas]

28. About time we fought fire with fire.

[SergeStorms]

35. Because "keeping our powder dry".....

has worked so well for us since the mid-90s.

[Diraven]

40. The reason this is important

Is that Trump and his goons are just waiting for one more attack they can pin on an "indoctrinated left wing radical" to start their violent fantasy crackdown on liberals, Democrats, trans people, and anyone who supports or funds them as "terrorists". It's a literal powder keg, and unfortunately we have to keep diffusing it. And unfortunately they'll probably get their way eventually because it doesn't matter how many right wing radical murders happen they will conveniently ignore because they don't fit their agenda, before that one that they can blame on us.

[hlthe2b]

4. What a strange photo. I assume he's holding a child and the bird?

Perhaps without the blurring of the face (?) it would be less bizarre.

[Kaleva]

6. He's holding the kid who is holding the bird

[enid602]

33. Noem

The child looks like she could be a young Kristi Noem.

[Ping Tung]

7. Too many hands.

[Abolishinist]

10. Something does seem odd about the kid's hands/arms.

His arms seem too long. And why is he in such a twisted position, holding the bird with his left hand vs. the right.

[Kaleva]

12. Because he is turned toward the left

[sarisataka]

14. He is holding the child belly to belly

The child is rotating their body to face the camera. At first glance it isn't obvious due to the camo. Once the positioning is deciphered, there is nothing wrong with the proportions

[Abolishinist]

18. Thanks, looking at it again I see his head is turned, now it makes sense.

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[Kaleva]

13. I only see 4

[Traildogbob]

5. Hmmmm

Duck Dynasty Fox freak? If it looks, walks and smells like a Duck….eliminate all religion that is not the Megan Kelly White one.
Petal Will recover a bullet with a detailed radical lib confession on the casing, like those skilled Asians write a book on a grain of rice.

[617Blue]

8. NC shooter was a white vet as well. Mental health issues, availability of weapons, anger...

[Coldwater]

9. This psycho is a one-man army

?ve=1&tl=1

[Rebl2]

15. Sounds

Like angry white veteran who thinks LDS not Christian enough for him.

[Kaleva]

16. Or it's in retaliation for the killing of Kirk

Robinson was raised as a Mormon

[Siwsan]

17. This is pretty much how I pictured he'd look

Classic Burton resident. Lots of good people in Burton. Too many MAGAt, though.

[regnaD kciN]

20. I refuse to accept anything from the NYComPost at face value...

…but note that, normally, their “unconfirmed information” tends to echo the MAGA line, so the fact that they’re not identifying the assailant as a “trans ANTIFA Marxist” may be telling.

[JI7]

22. It's kind of difficult to do when n you have an image like this

What will happen is they will just stop talking about it and pretend it never happened just as they do with Colorado and the Pennsylvania shooting that killed multiple law enforcement recently.

[JI7]

21. So I'm guessing we won't be hearing much about this anymore

[Skittles]

29. CORRECT

only if the shooter is trans or an immigrant (or if the victim is a racist celebrity)

[IbogaProject]

24. Killers often begin with animals

[Skittles]

30. ugh, anyone who finds killing entertaining

gotta love the ones who photograph their victory over......a duck

[calimary]

25. Aw, poor bird.

[SeattleVet]

26. When it's a straight white dude it's a 'deranged madman'

If it's anyone else they somehow transform into a trans dem leftist.

[Liberal In Texas]

31. All those mean lefties trans rhetorics are making the gun toting magats react by shooting up

a church or a mall or a rightwing podcaster or ...

See it's actually the radical left. (Radical Left = Anybody against Trump)

[Klarkashton]

27. Trump's "crackdown on crime" can't do shit about

These mass murders.

I'll bet trump says nothing much about this one.

[intheflow]

39. Right?

The real violence isn’t happening in blue cities, it’s happening in rural heartland kind of places. And it sure as hell isn’t being done by immigrants, asylum seekers, POC, women, or antifa.

[ImNotGod]

32. Get used to it folks, it's only going to get worse. With criminals running the government, the courts, the JD, people

are being groomed to be lawless, take what they want, do what they want. We are watching the breakdown of our society and no one can stop it.

[Blue Full Moon]

37. I do think it's connected to the NC shooting.

Both 40 yr old Iraq war vets.
Reminds me of the Las Vegas and New Orleans attacks.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

41. Another case of--MAGACIDE! Brought to you by Trump, Inc.

[Tree Lady]

42. I wonder how many learn to kill

In military so loose that feeling of valuing life.

[choie]

43. Aren't ya proud, sonny!

I killed a bird that had no way to defend himself. Look at that blood! Aren't guns great?