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Siwsan

(27,721 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:03 PM 15 hrs ago

Update on my post in Late Breaking News about the LDS Temple shooting

My niece was out getting bagels and was close enough to hear the shots!!

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Update on my post in Late Breaking News about the LDS Temple shooting (Original Post) Siwsan 15 hrs ago OP
Wow LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #1
Fox, Bondi and Petal Traildogbob 15 hrs ago #2
Don't forget "trans"...! regnaD kciN 15 hrs ago #3
Oh hell yes Traildogbob 15 hrs ago #4
Bet the shooter wasn't a "Drag Queen". republianmushroom 15 hrs ago #5
This country is a fucking nightmare. RandySF 15 hrs ago #6
Ditto............. Lovie777 14 hrs ago #10
Oh my goodness! I would've been terrified. MIButterfly 15 hrs ago #7
Is she ok? SheltieLover 15 hrs ago #8
She is very shaken Siwsan 14 hrs ago #12
Poor kiddo! SheltieLover 13 hrs ago #19
What was written on the bullets? johnnyfins 15 hrs ago #9
Kash hasn't decided yet Pototan 13 hrs ago #18
The shooter was Pototan 14 hrs ago #11
A left wing radical criminal?🙃 Deuxcents 14 hrs ago #14
Just knowing he was from Burton tells me a lot Siwsan 14 hrs ago #15
We've hired security at our church. mn9driver 14 hrs ago #13
It never ends Maggiemayhem 13 hrs ago #16
Every time I go to the store, something like this is in the back of my mind Siwsan 13 hrs ago #17
... SheltieLover 13 hrs ago #20
I pay attention to where the exits are. Kaleva 13 hrs ago #21

Traildogbob

(11,902 posts)
2. Fox, Bondi and Petal
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:07 PM
15 hrs ago

Will have details of the shooter in 3-2-1…….radical left terrorist. “We got him”.

MIButterfly

(1,366 posts)
7. Oh my goodness! I would've been terrified.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:16 PM
15 hrs ago

This kind of thing could (and does) happen anywhere at any time to anyone. Sadly, this is the country we live in now. It makes absolutely no sense to me. When will enough be enough?

I hope your niece is okay. I would be shaking all day, just to be close enough to hear the shots. I can't even imagine what terror those parishioners went through.

Siwsan

(27,721 posts)
12. She is very shaken
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:42 PM
14 hrs ago

I'd say between the city of Grand Blanc and the township, crime of this magnitude is practically unheard of. Yea, they have break ins and other types of suburban crime but never a mass shooter.

Many years ago there was a family annihilator situation and years later another murder was committed in the same house. The house is close to where my niece lives. The fact that I remember those so clearly says something about the murder rate in the city.

SheltieLover

(73,944 posts)
19. Poor kiddo!
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:44 PM
13 hrs ago

Can you encourage her to get some therapy for this?

Yes, it sounds like a safe-ish area.

Pototan

(2,865 posts)
11. The shooter was
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:41 PM
14 hrs ago

a 40-year-old, white male who rammed his pickup truck, with two large American Flags waving in the back, into the back door of the church. He was skilled enough to build an explosive device that engulfed the church in flames. Care to speculate on his background and motives?

Siwsan

(27,721 posts)
15. Just knowing he was from Burton tells me a lot
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:47 PM
14 hrs ago

Burton is on the norther border of Grand Blanc/southern border of Flint. The demographics are solidly blue collar, middle income and lower, and very conservative. Big time MAGA area. So, the whole flags and guns thing doesn't surprise me.

I realized that I use to live in a house that's only about a mile, or so, from that church.

Maggiemayhem

(883 posts)
16. It never ends
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:55 PM
13 hrs ago

The people shot yesterday at the fish market in North Carolina was done by an ex Marine.

Siwsan

(27,721 posts)
17. Every time I go to the store, something like this is in the back of my mind
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:00 PM
13 hrs ago

Now I plan my grocery shopping for early in the morning. Still, every time I hear a sharp noise, I freeze.

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