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 Mormons raise $200,000 for family of gunman who attacked their church
10/02/25 01:11 PM
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In the days after a shooting at a Mormon church in Michigan, members raised money for the families of the victims — and the family of the shooter.
October 1, 2025 at 2:16 p.m. EDT
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in deep grief after a gunman ambushed a worship service in Michigan on Sunday, killing four people and wounding eight others.
They started fundraisers for the victims. Then they did something remarkable: They began donating money to the wife and son of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man who police say carried out the attack.
That fundraiser, which has raised close to $200,000, has collected donations from more than 5,000 people, many of them Latter-day Saints.
“Sanford leaves behind a wife and children who must be grieving. They will face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of this week’s horrifying events,” reads the GiveSendGo page, which was started Tuesday by Dave Butler, a member of the Latter-day Saints who said he doesn’t have a connection to the Sanfords or to Grand Blanc, where the shooting happened.
“The Epistle of James says that we should care for the widows and orphans,” Butler told The Washington Post. “I wanted to make sure that we were taking care of them, and thousands of people, it turns out, agree with me.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/10/01/lds-mormon-church-shooting-fundraiser-sanford/
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