BURTON, Mich. — When the horror of yesterday’s mass shooting spread across the news, Thomas Sanford’s neighbors recognized the man in the photo , and they recognized his truck adorned with American flags, too.

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Family members were seen coming and going all day Monday at Sanford's home. To a person, his neighbors told FOX 13 News affiliate WXYZ that Sanford was reclusive. Two said that, during the winter, he would plow their driveways free of charge. Another knew that Sanford loved to hunt, but everyone agreed that he lived an isolated life.

As one neighbor said off camera: “He was not someone you could get to know.”

One man who encountered Sanford just recently

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