A woman was Inside the Church of Michigan When her father and three other people were killed, he says that she and the armed with the eyes of the eyes during chaos were able to look at his soul, see his pain and feel lost. She said that she immediately forgiven him “with my heart.”
Lisa Lewis, 45, wrote.
A handwritten statement written by Lewis written by Lewis On Facebook. She described how she encountered the shooter and also admitted the public for peace.
“Fear generates anger, anger of anger from hatred, and the multiplication of hatred,” Louis wrote. “If we can stop hatred, we can stop suffering. But stopping hatred takes us all.”
Police said that Thomas “Jake” Sanford, 40, shocked his little truck in the Church of Jesus Christ, my last day in the town of Blanc, near Flint, on Sunday, they shot the building and destroyed the building with fire. The police killed him at the scene.
Friends Sanford said He has expressed hatred Towards the Mormon Church, as it is common, after living in Utah and returning to Michigan years ago. Utah is the mother country of the church.
Luis said she was killing her father, who was fatal, Craig Hayden, 72, when Sanford approached and asked a question.
Lewis wrote: “I did not raise my eyes from his eyes, something happened, I saw the pain, felt lost.” ))
I also wrote: “I saw his soul and saw me. I was allowed to live.”
Lewis refused to hold an interview with the Associated Press. Her son -in -law, Terry Green, wrote on Facebook that he believed that her interactions with the gunman “bought a precious time to escape from others.”
Next to Hayden, William was killed “Pat” Howard and John Bond. The fourth victim of the absolute was not identified. Eight people were injured.
Meanwhile, a different church said on Wednesday that Sanford tried to deliberate his 10 -year -old son there on September 21 and was upset when he was rejected.
Sanford did not threaten the employees of the River Church in Godrich, but he was “frustrated”, as Kalb Combs, one of the elderly, said to AP. “You can see his incitement … … wanted to do this.”
Church staff tried to obtain the faith of the boy with Jesus Christ, but “they came to a conclusion that their son was not unable to understand what he was doing,” said Comps.
Combs said that Sanford and his wife did not attend the church regularly, but they held an event there 10 years ago to raise money to take care of the medical boy. He was born with a healthy condition that produced high levels of abnormal insulin.