A former U.S. Marine crashed his vehicle into a Michigan church, opening fire with an assault rifle and setting the building ablaze, killing at least four people and wounding at least eight others before being fatally shot by police.

• The perpetrator, identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, age 40, set fire to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Two law enforcement officers engaged the suspect in a shootout, killing him within approximately eight minutes of the incident's start.
• The FBI is leading the investigation into what it considers "an act of targeted violence," with some explosives recovered from the scene.