A fundraiser set up by a Mormon family is raising money for the kin of Michigan Latter-day Saints church shooter Thomas Sanford in a remarkable act of compassion.
Sanford, who reportedly had a twisted hatred for the Mormon faith, killed four people and wounded eight after crashing his truck into the church in Grand Blanc, Mich., before opening fire on worshippers who had gathered in their hundreds for Sunday services.
He then set fire to the church and burned the building to the ground.
The petition’s creator, David Butler, a devout Mormon, said his faith had driven him to raise money for Sanford’s family in the wake of Sunday’s tragedy.
He said he had “no connection to the Sanfords or to Grand Blanc,” but was just “an ordinary member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” in the petition’s description.
Sanford’s death in a police shootout following the massacre meant he “leaves behind a wife and child who must be grieving,” Butler said.
“They will face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of this week’s horrifying events,” he wrote.
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