SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed the number of dead and injured in the shooting at an LDS church in Grand Blanc, Mich., in Sept.

Authorities have confirmed five dead, including the assailant, and nine injured.

According to police, Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, drove through the front doors of the meetinghouse right before services began Sunday morning, Sept. 28. He fired an assault rifle at the hundreds of churchgoers inside, and then deliberately set the building on fire. Sanford was later shot and killed by police.

Authorities have determined Sanford's motive to be targeted violence due to his anti-religious beliefs aimed at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Sanford was a former Marine who lived in Burton, Mich., and went to

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