White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gave an update on the Michigan church shooter on Monday, telling "Fox & Friends" that he allegedly "hated people of the Mormon faith."

Kris Johns, a council candidate in Burton, said he met Sanford while introducing himself to voters last week. He told MLive.com that Sanford was pleasant but became “unhinged” when he suddenly began talking about the Mormon church, as it is widely known.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said investigators believe the man accused of fatally shooting four people at a Michigan church “hated people of the Mormon faith.”Police say former U.S. Marine Thomas Jacob Sanford killed four people and injured eight when he opened fire at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township,

It was a hard weekend for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Longtime leader Russell M. Nelson died on Saturday at the age of 101. On Sunday, a deadly attack on a Mormon congregation in Michigan killed at least four people.

Not long after President Russell M. Nelson began leading the Church, he made an announcement that attracted a lot of attention, in which the Mormon name would be deemphasized.

The shooting took place in Grand Blanc Township, about 50 miles north of Detroit, on Sunday morning, Grand Blanc police said. President Donald Trump called the rampage an “attack on Christians” in a Truth Social post on Sunday afternoon.