Michigan Church attack: Tactics used are similar to a new “hybrid threat”

Donel Harvin, an emergency expert in internal security and public health at Georgetown University, told CNN on Sunday that the attacker may have conducted pre -employment and reaching a plan that increases death and damage.

He added: “This seems to be a relatively new type of what we call the mixed threat, as it is not only to obtain vehicles, perhaps to get some chaos, but you also shoot a crowd of people-may have started fire.”

According to local law enforcement, the suspect crashed a pickup truck across the front door of the church, then left the car and began shooting with a offensive rifle.

Minutes later, the police arrived at the scene and shot the man, who died and was later identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, from the nearby city of Berton.

Fire in the church, and US law enforcement officials NBC News said Up to three improvised devices are found at the scene. The Michigan State Police Bomb also responded to the attack.

“All this creates chaos,” Harvin told CNN. “It can create what we call a fatal funnel trying to push people towards one location.”

According to New York PostSanford was a veterans of the naval infantry weapon that served in Iraq. The police have not yet determined a motivation or if he was connected to the church.

So far, at least two people have died of the attack, with the exception of Sanford, and many of them were injured. Police said hundreds of people were in the church at the time.

It was the last attack on places of worship recently. Earlier this month, the suspect set fire to a synagogue in Florida. In August, two children were killed during the mass at the Al -Bashr Church in Minneapolis. In July, two women were shot at a church in Lexington, Kentucky.

“We pray for the victims and their families. The epidemic of violence in our country must end, immediately!” Trump wrote on social media on Sunday.