{"id":166694,"date":"2025-09-28T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166694\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:40:07","slug":"michigan-mormon-church-shooting-live-two-killed-as-church-set-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166694\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Mormon church shooting live: Two killed as church set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one dead and nine injured after shooting and fire at US Mormon churchpublished at 19:37 BST<\/p>\n<p>19:37 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emergency personnel on the road in Michigan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bbdbb721-3515-4cdd-b2e0-902da1f77d3f.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"5556\" height=\"3126\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US President Donald Trump says he\u2019s been briefed after at least one person died and nine others were injured in a shooting and fire at a Mormon church in Michigan, according to local police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials say the suspect &#8211; a 40-year-old man &#8211; drove his vehicle into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, before \u201cdeliberately\u201d setting the building on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police say there\u2019s no threat to the public and the fire has been contained, after the suspect was later killed in an exchange of fire with officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We don\u2019t yet know the motive for the attack on the church, but Trump has called it \u201cyet another targeted attack on Christians\u201d in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local Grand Blanc police force says 100 FBI agents have been deployed to help with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re expecting a further update from officials later &#8211; until then, we\u2019ll keep you up to speed with all the key details on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one dead and nine injured after shooting and fire at US Mormon churchpublished at 19:37 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-166694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}