Names of the victims in the mass shooting at Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue are pictured Oct. 27, 2018 at a memorial outside of the synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Robert Bowers was convicted in the mass shooting that left 11 people dead.

People in prayer again became the target of violence on Sept. 28 when a man rammed a pickup truck into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, opened fire, and set the church ablaze, killing at least four people and injuring several others, authorities said.

The incident is the latest in a long series of attacks on places of worship across the United States, including the deadly August shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis.

A Voice of America report found that mass shootings at places of worship "have become more frequent" since the mid-2000s – committed, it said, "by perpetrators with a history of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity and Islamophobia, with ties to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups."

Here are some of the mass shootings that have shattered religious communities in the last decade:

Aug. 27: Annunciation Catholic Church

A month before the shooting in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, terror struck at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, where church parishioners were gunned down in a shooting that left two children dead and more than a dozen others injured.

Prosecutors said that the evidence collected from the investigation includes hundreds of pages of writing in which the shooter, identified as Robin Westman, 23, details plans for the attack, praises other mass shooters, and expresses "hate towards almost every group imaginable."

July 13: Richmond Road Baptist Church

Two people were killed and two others were wounded on July 13 at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Police shot and killed the suspect. Preliminary reports indicated the suspect "had a connection to the individuals at the church," local police said.

June 23: CrossPointe Community Church

Police shot and killed a man who opened fire outside a church filled with worshipers in Wayne, Michigan, in June. The man, 31-year-old Brian Browning, attempted to bust into CrossPointe Community Church during a Sunday service, but the church's security team intervened, according to police.

June 16, 2022: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Three people were killed at a church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, when 71-year-old Robert Findlay Smith opened fire. The motive was never determined.

April 27, 2019: Congregation Chabad

On the last day of Passover in 2019, a gunman opened fire at a temple in Poway, California, near San Diego, killing one person and injuring three others. Federal prosecutors said the gunman, John Timothy Earnest, "acted violently with hatred toward others ... this was planned."

In December 2021, Earnest was sentenced in federal court to life plus 30 years in prison for his crimes.

March 15, 2019: Christchurch mosque shootings

Attacks on two New Zealand mosques killed 51 people on March 15, 2019, in what was the country's deadliest shooting in history. In a manifesto, the shooter expressed white nationalist and anti-Muslim beliefs. The attack inspired other mass shooters, including the perpetrator of the Poway, California, synagogue shooting.

Oct. 27, 2018: Tree of Life synagogue

The October 2018 attack at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue killed 11 and wounded six others, including many older adults. It is the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, according to the American Jewish Committee.

Robert Bowers was found guilty on 63 criminal counts, including 11 counts each of obstruction of free exercise of religion resulting in death and hate crimes resulting in death.

Nov. 5, 2017: First Baptist Church

A deadly rampage at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killed 26 people and wounded 20 more in 2017. Victims of the shooting ranged in age from 18 months to 77 years. The shooting was motivated by a domestic dispute, authorities said at the time.

June 17, 2015: Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

A shooting by a white supremacist at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, rocked the nation in 2015. Nine people were killed during a bible study night.

In 2017, the gunman, Dylann Roof, became the first person in the United States sentenced to death for a federal hate crime.

Contributing: Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY; Reuters

Karissa Waddick is a reporter on USA TODAY's Nation Desk. She can be reached at kwaddick@usatoday.com.

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