BREAKING: Mass Shooting, Fire at Church in Grand Blanc, MI, Shooter Down

AP Photo/Paul Sancya

Oh, this is ghastly news.

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The local news affiliates are reporting the Mormon church in the city, which is located between Flint, MI and some fifty miles north of Detroit, suffered an attack during services around 11 a.m. this morning, with multiple casualties.

Multiple victims have been confirmed, a shooter is dead, and a church is on fire after an active shooter situation in Grand Blanc, police said.

The call came in before 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on McCandlish Road in Grand Blanc.

The shooter is down, and the church is ablaze.

...Police said around 11:25 a.m. that the shooter is “down” and there is no threat to the public.

The church is still on fire.

The Detroit Fox station has a little more information and a briefing is scheduled shortly.

...Police sources said that six to eight people were struck. Their conditions are currently unknown.

Video from the scene showed smoke billowing as emergency vehicles lined the street. Sources said the suspected shooter may have started the church on fire. Grand Blanc confirmed that as of 11:35 a.m., the church was on fire, and people should avoid the area.

I'll add more as it becomes available. This is the Genesee County Sheriff at the scene, updating a little while ago.

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Oh, Lord.

Such evil.

Bondyi is out with a statement, and Bongino says his guys and ATF are en route.

Genesee County Sheriff has confirmed shooter is 'down' and they are going to have a conference in about twenty minutes or so.

I have heard a report he drove his vehicle into the church but I haven't seen confirmation of that, so I'll hold off asserting it as a fact. There's a reported photo of a truck on the side of the building, but it looks sketchy af to me, and I'm not going to post it until the authorities say one way or the other.

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**Truck Pic is BS - See update from press conference below

While we wait, I just want to make a note of two other incidents that happened this weekend, which are very disturbing and not getting much or any airtime at all. The first is an entirely cowardly shooting in Southport, NC. A 'known to authorities' degenerate in his boat is accused of pulling up next to the dock of a popular local seafood restaurant and firing into the diners outside, killing three of them and wounding at least eight others, before speeding away.

Fox News has been covering it.

And in the heart of Midtown Manhattan last night, a white Dodge Durango rammed an off-duty federal agent's car, and what they found in the vehicle was chilling.

...What unfolded in Midtown wasn’t just a crash — it was a full-blown nightmare. According to police sources and witness accounts, the suspect behind the wheel of a Dodge Durango rammed an off-duty federal agent’s car before being taken down.

Here’s what was recovered:

🚨A handgun

🚨An AR-15 style rifle

🚨A scope

🚨Armor-piercing ammo marked Level 3+

🚨And a license plate cover I personally saw that read: “FTP — Fxck the Police”

Cops worked the scene from 10 p.m. until nearly 4 a.m., pulling bag after bag after bag from the SUV.

And while I was filming, people tried to stop me, tried to hide me, tried to keep the truth from coming out. But I stayed.

This wasn’t just a car crash. This was a heavily armed suspect in the heart of Manhattan, and it looked like NYPD may have stopped something much bigger from happening.

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As far as this incident, other than the eyewitness footage and account on @ViralNewsNYC I have been unable to find a single peep about anything further.

Times are unsettled, my friends. Stay frosty.

More on those poor folks and that situation in MI, as I have it.

WELP: Still no press conference or any word on the condition of the victims. Nothing on the story about driving into the building, either, but the local Fox station did have an interview with a victim who'd either been shot at in HIS vehicle by the shooter or was part of an exchange of gunfire. Their live coverage is a bit garbled at the moment.

NORE:  Holy smokes - Fox News broadcasting now, and that church is GONE. Dang. They are also confirming the ramming story, but car or truck? Unknown yet and at which point of the structure.

Also discussing an IED (!) reports of which I've seen as being mentioned on the scanner, but also as the possible source of the fire that consumed the building.

Press Conference: Was the suspect known to police?

40-year-old man from [Beege adds: BURTON] MI - not releasing subject's name at this point.

Rammed the church with his CAR, exited, started firing, two officers responded and engaged in a firefight, killing the suspect.

He drove through the church door. And Grand Blanc Chief of Police William Renye believes there will be victims who were trapped in the fire. 

Ten gunshot victims now. One person dead in addition to shooter.

Oh, God - this is awful.

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Local law enforcement took the suspect out.

The fire was started by the shooter.

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