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The FBI continues to look for a motive in the Michigan Latter-day Saint church shooting.

A White House spokeswoman says Thomas Jacob Sanford hated members of the church.

Sanford lived in the Park City area years ago before moving back to Michigan.

Investigators say they’re still looking for a motive in the deadly shooting and fire at a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Michigan but the White House attributed it to apparent animosity toward church members.

Speculation about what drove Thomas Jacob Sanford has ranged from his political leaning to religion to mental illness.

But White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt provided perhaps the most definitive direction in which the FBI is looking.

“All that is known right now is that this is an individual who hated people of the

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