Death and destruction came in multiple forms Sunday morning at a church in Grand Blanc Township, where at least four people were killed and eight others were injured in what authorities are calling "an act of targeted violence."

It all started about 10:25 a.m., Sept. 28, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on McCandlish Road, where an armed gunman identified by police as Thomas Jacob Sanford , 40, of Burton, rammed a pickup truck bearing two American flags into the chapel during Sunday morning services, set it ablaze and used an assault rifle to open fire on hundreds of worshippers.

Within eight minutes, Sanford was dead, too, said Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye.

Two law enforcement officers — one from the township police department and one who works

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