LDS church member raises more than $300K for family of gunman in deadly chapel attack

When a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan on Sunday, killing four people and injuring eight others, David Butler, a member of the Mormon church from Utah, said his initial reaction was that it was "an evil act." But after hearing the suspec t, Thomas Jacob Sanford, who was killed in a shootout with police, left behind a wife and children, including a chronically ill son, Butler said he felt compelled to help them. On Tuesday, Butler created an account on the crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, hoping, he said, to raise $10,000 for the alleged killer's family. But as of Thursday afternoon, more than 7,600 people had donated more than $300,000 to the fund. Asked why he set up the account for the family of a man who targeted members of his faith, the 53