A woman who was inside Michigan When her father and three other people were killed, the church says that she and the gunman closed their eyes during anarchy and were able to see their soul, seeing her pain and a sense of lost. He said that he immediately forgive him “from my heart”.
“He let me live,” Lisa Louis45, written.
A picture of a handwritten statement written by Louis was posted FacebookHe told how he faced the shooter and he also made a petition for the public for peace.
Luis wrote, “Fear angrily hates anger, suffer from breeds.” “If we can stop hate, we can stop grief. But stopping hatred leads us all.”
40-year-old Thomas “Jake” Sanford shot his pickup truck in the Grand Blanc Township at the Church of Jesus Christ of-Day Sants Chapel, near Flint, on Sunday, in the congregation and destroyed the building with fire, police said. Police He was killed at the scene.
Friends said that Sanford had expressed hatred to the Mormon Church, as commonly known, after staying in it Uta And returning to Michigan years ago. Utah is the home state of the church.
Luis said she was kneeling next to her deadly injured father, Craig Haydon, 72, when Sanford approached and asked a question.
Luis wrote, “I never took my eyes off my eyes, something happened, I saw the pain, he lost,” Louis wrote. “I felt it deeply with every fiber of my existence. I forgive him, I forgive him, not in words, but with my heart.”
He also wrote: “I saw his soul and he saw me. He let me live.”
Luis refused to interview by Associated Press. His brother -in -law, Terry Green wrote on Facebook that he believes that his conversation with Gunman was “purchased precious time for others to escape.”
Apart from Hayden, William “Pat” Howard and John Bond were also killed. The shooter’s fourth hunting has not been publicly identified. Eight people were injured.
Meanwhile, a separate church said on Wednesday that Sanford tried to baptize his 10 -year -old son on 21 September and was upset when he turned down.
Sanford did not threaten employees at River Church in Gudich, but he was “disappointed”, Kaleb Combes, an elderly, told AP. “You could see his movement. … He wanted it.”
The church staff tried to understand the boy’s faith in Jesus Christ, but “came to the conclusion that his son was unable to understand what he was doing,” Comombs said.
Sanford and his wife did not attend the church regularly, said Comombs, but held a program 10 years ago to raise money for the boy’s medical care. He was born with a health status, producing an unusually high level of insulin.