SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — We're learning more about the suspect who opened fire in a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Grand Blanc, Michigan, Sunday, including a Utah connection.

Four Latter-day Saints are dead, and several others sustained injuries, after a man identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, drove through the front doors of the church, fired an assault rifle at hundreds of people gathered inside, and deliberately started the building on fire.

Sanford was shot and killed while exchanging gunfire with police at the church. Now, we're learning more about the man believed to have taken the lives of worshippers.

Salt Lake County connection

In 2011, Sanford was receiving unemployment benefits in Salt Lake County, Utah court records show.

Documents indicate that on Nov. 3, 2011, he wa

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