The Michigan Latter Day Saints Mormon chapel in Grand Blanc was set on fire, with numerous attendees shot and two persons killed, including the gunman.

Pop Pulse September 28, 2025

 

Michigan Latter Day Saints Mormon church set on fire in Grand Blanc, many patrons shot, two people dead, including gunman. More victims feared after being trapped by blaze.

More victims were suspected after being trapped by fire.
A criminal set fire to a Mormon church in Michigan before shooting congregants, killing at least two people, including the gunman, and injuring several more. 

According to police, the shooter, a 40-year-old male from Burton, Michigan, slammed his truck into the church before opening fire on more than a hundred people attending a Sunday service at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Grand Blanc.
A shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan killed two people, including the gunman.

Authorities say the shooter rammed their vehicle through the front of the church during a large service and began shooting. Officers killed the gunman. Up to 10 congregants were shot, with one later dying in hospital.

Police say the shooter intentionally started a fire at the church, which grew into a large blaze. Officers believe they will find additional victims who may have been trapped inside the burning church and perished, CNN reported.


Grand Blanc Township Police Department said there were ‘multiple victims and the shooter is down’ at around 11.13am. 


The church continued to remain on fire in the aftermath of the shooting, videos posted on social media showed. The blaze had since been contained officials stated. 

Stated the Grand Blanc Township Police Department, ‘There has been an active shooter at the church of Latter Day Saints on McCandlish Road,’

‘There are multiple victims and the shooter is down. There is NO threat to the public at this time. The church is actively on fire.

‘For people on site, the reunification site is the pavilion to the north. Offsite reunification will be at Trillium theater at Holly and McCandlish.’
More victims feared dead after becoming trapped inside LDS Michigan church

Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said the fire had been extinguished, saying, ‘We do believe that we will find additional victims once we have that scene secure.’


Writing on social media, several witnesses said at least four people had been killed, though police have not published an official death toll. 

One witness said the church had been ‘completely destroyed’ by the blaze, and that they saw the shooter’s truck parked in front of the building. 

Sheriff Swanson of the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office said ‘the entire church is on fire’ as he spoke in a live video from the scene. 

‘We do have multiple victims,’ he added. 

Police said just before 1pm that the fire had been ‘contained’.

‘We do not have names of victims at his time,’ police said.  

Second church shooting in Michigan since June

Shared images on social media showed the gunman’s vehicle, a silver truck with two American flags in the trunk lodged in the exterior of the chapel.

Pictured the 40 year old shooter’s truck which he rammed into the Grand Blanc Mormon LDS church.

The shooter has not been publicly identified. The motive was not immediately known.


This is at least the second shooting at a church in Michigan since June. In June, a gunman began shooting at people outside the CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne on June 22.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is informally known as the Mormons. Grand Blanc, a town of 7,700 people, is a suburb of Flint and is located about 100km (60 miles) northwest of Detroit.

The shooting came the day after the death of the 101-year-old Mormon leader Russell Nelson.

This is a breaking news story with updates to follow.  

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