A Waymo driverless taxi blocked an entire street as an ambulance attempted to respond to the deadly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-probes-potential-nexus-to-terrorism-in-deadly-austin-shooting-spree">mass shooting</a> at a bar in Austin, Texas, early Sunday morning.
A video of the incident went viral on social media over the weekend, and Austin officials confirmed that the Waymo robotaxi was blocking the road as first responders tried to drive to Buford’s, a popular bar near the University of Texas at Austin. The bar was the scene of a mass shooting where a Senegalese immigrant, who wore a shirt depicting the Iranian flag, killed at least two people and wounded over a dozen more.
The video shows the Waymo vehicle sitting perpendicular to the road and blocking an ambulance as EMS attempted to drive to the scene of the shooting. The robotaxi appeared to be waiting for its passengers as it blocked most of the street.
One woman was heard on the video saying, &#8220;This is why we should not have self-driving cars!&#8221;
&#8220;We just need to get in it, I think,&#8221; a man said.
The driverless car blocked the road for nearly two minutes before a police officer got into the Waymo and manually drove it off the street. By that time, the ambulance appeared to back up and take an alternate route to the scene of the shooting.
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A Waymo spokeswoman told The Daily Wire that the driverless vehicle &#8220;identified a road blockage&#8221; as it was picking up passengers and then &#8220;began executing a U-turn.&#8221; When another ambulance appeared on the street, the Waymo &#8220;briefly yielded and was assisted by a nearby officer,&#8221; according to the spokeswoman.
Matthew Turnage said that after he left, he ordered an Uber ride, and the rideshare service sent him the Waymo car.
&#8220;We left a club at 2 a.m. and were walking to get a ride home. We just so happened to get a Waymo car from Uber and when we found the car, it was trying to pick us up but got stuck in the middle of the street and blocked emergency vehicles for a couple of minutes,&#8221; Turnage <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/austin-mass-shooting/video-waymo-seen-blocking-first-responders-during-west-sixth-shooting/">told</a> KXAN Austin.
Robert Luckritz, chief of the Austin-Travis County EMS, said on Monday that the Waymo incident likely didn&#8217;t affect the &#8220;overall&#8221; response. Luckritz added that around 20 emergency vehicles made it to the scene of the shooting, with the first emergency vehicles arriving within 57 seconds of the first 911 call.
&#8220;So in the grand scheme of the impact of the overall incident, we don&#8217;t believe it had any impact on patient outcomes,&#8221; he said.
Luckritz said that officials communicated their &#8220;concerns&#8221; with Waymo &#8220;and [are working] with them to try to address this issue moving forward.&#8221;
Austin was one of the first cities to allow driverless car companies, such as Waymo and Tesla, to put robotaxis on its streets. While Waymo argues that its robotaxis have fewer accidents than human drivers, the driverless vehicles have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/waymo-woes-self-driving-robotaxis-racking-up-crashes-and-mystery-riders-in-the-trunk">caused</a> traffic jams, driven through police standoffs, and <a href="https://x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1929590206488883246">blocked</a> emergency vehicles in the past.
Police said at a press conference that the death toll from the shooting could soon rise to three as one victim could be taken off of life support later on Monday. Federal authorities are investigating the incident as a potential terrorist attack. Along with the Iran-themed shirt, the gunman, identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, also wore a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase &#8220;Property of Allah.&#8221;

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Authorities in Austin, Texas, have confirmed that the suspect in a shooting that left two dead and 14 more injured was wearing a shirt depicting an Iranian flag under a hoodie that read &#8220;Property of Allah&#8221; when he opened fire on Sunday morning.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and Police Chief Lisa Davis gave a press conference early Monday afternoon to give updates on the still-unfolding situation, and after taking a brief moment to thank all of those involved in the investigation, they promised additional information would be coming about the suspect in another press conference tentatively scheduled for Thursday.
&#8220;We are still in the early hours of the investigation; this is a complicated and large crime scene,&#8221; Davis said, identifying the two deceased victims as Savitha Shan and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/full-of-life-texas-tech-student-slain-in-austin-shooting-as-fbi-eyes-possible-terror-link">Ryder Harrington</a> and adding, &#8220;I cannot imagine the grief, pain, and loss these families are feeling today, and my heart is with them.&#8221;
Davis went on to note that the magnitude of the crime scene would necessarily slow the investigation. Officials are tasked with interviewing more than 150 witnesses who were present at the time of the shooting — and information will be provided to the press and the public as it is deemed appropriate. She also said that in the coming days, after they&#8217;ve been thoroughly reviewed, authorities would be releasing the footage from body-worn cameras.
Once they had given the available updates, Davis and Watson took several questions from the press. It was confirmed then that the shooter, identified as Senegalese immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen Ndiaga Diagne, had been wearing a shirt with the Iranian flag on it under his hoodie. There was also a Quran located in his vehicle, as was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-probes-potential-nexus-to-terrorism-in-deadly-austin-shooting-spree">previously reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
Davis, in response to a question from the press, said that the shooter had purchased his firearms legally, and that he had not previously been on law enforcement&#8217;s &#8220;radar.&#8221;
During the question-and-answer period, officials also confirmed that of the 14 who were injured in the attack, one was expected to be taken off life support in the near future — and two remain in critical condition.
In the coming days, investigators will be working to piece together a timeline of the events leading up to the shooting in an effort to get a better picture of the shooter&#8217;s motive.

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The first victim in the Austin bar shooting over the weekend has been identified as 19-year-old Ryder Harrington, a student at Texas Tech.
&#8220;Ryder was the best mix of all the Harrington crew,” his brother, Reed Harrington, wrote on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Da2o6PHw2/">social media</a>, thanking supporters on behalf of the family.
Harrington was one of two people killed early Sunday morning after 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne opened fire outside Buford&#8217;s, a popular bar in downtown Austin. Police shot and killed Diagne after a brief gunfire exchange.
According to local Lubbock TV station <a href="https://www.kcbd.com/2026/03/02/texas-tech-student-killed-austin-bar-shooting/">KCBD</a>, Harrington was a member of the Fall 2024 pledge class of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
In a statement, the fraternity said:
<blockquote>His character and genuine spirit made our chapter stronger and our friendships deeper. The energy he carried, the joy he spread, and the way he made everyone feel welcome are things we will never forget. He made the world around him better simply by being in it.</blockquote>
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) said the loss hit close to home because Harrington was related to one of his team members.
&#8220;Ryder was the brother-in-law of one of our own, and our hearts are aching alongside his loved ones,&#8221; Burrows <a href="https://x.com/Burrows4TX/status/2028304728820514958?s=20">said</a>. &#8220;From all accounts, Ryder was exactly the kind of young man who made a difference without even trying—full of life, loyal to his friends, proud to be a Red Raider and a Texan, and someone who showed up for the people around him.&#8221;
Police say Diagne fired just before 2 a.m. Sunday. He <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-tech-student-identified-victim-austin-bar-shooting-rcna261317">reportedly</a> wore a sweatshirt that said &#8220;Property of Allah&#8221; and a t-shirt underneath with a design similar to the Iranian flag. According to law enforcement, Diagne drove around the block multiple times in a large SUV before stopping, turning on his flashers, rolling down a window, and firing at people sitting outside the establishment.
He then exited the vehicle and continued shooting in the crowded nightlife district.
Authorities said Diagne was armed with a handgun and rifle and acted alone.
Fourteen people were hospitalized, several in critical condition.
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shooting-at-austin-texas-bar-leaves-at-least-3-dead-multiple-people-wounded/#">CBS News</a> reported that investigators found Iranian flags and pictures of Iranian leaders in the shooter&#8217;s home. A Quran was also found in the vehicle. Officials have not announced a motive, but the FBI is investigating whether the shooting could be related to terrorism. Other reports say the gunman had previous mental health issues.
The attack occurred hours after the United States and Israel launched strikes on targets in Iran.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Austin Police at 512-974-TIPS.

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The gender-confused man who murdered his wife and son at a Rhode Island hockey game defended men in women’s bathrooms, said transgender people go “BESERK” when criticized, and urged the Right to welcome “conservative trans people,” a review of his social media reveals 
The X posts of shooter Robert Dorgan, who called himself &#8220;Roberta,&#8221; suggest that he adhered to a disjointed belief system that blended transgender ideology, Jew hatred, Nazi iconography, and pornography, as well as some standard conservative views. The posts give a picture of Dorgan’s twisted mental state in the weeks leading up to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-identifying-man-opens-fire-at-rhode-island-hockey-game-killing-two">deadly attack</a> at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket.
During the attack, Dorgan killed himself, his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan and their adult son, Aidan, and left Rhonda Dorgan&#8217;s parents and family friend Thomas Geruso injured. Court records from 2020 <a href="https://www.wpri.com/target-12/pawtucket-shooters-gender-identity-tied-to-past-family-disputes-court-records-show/">show</a> that Dorgan’s wife filed for divorce, initially citing “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits” as the reason before crossing them out and writing “irreconcilable differences.”
Just one day before he opened fire in Pawtucket, Dorgan posted on X that transgender people go &#8220;berserk&#8221; because of criticism of their identity. 
Responding to Christian actor Kevin Sorbo’s post on X that transgender-identifying Rep. “Sarah” McBride was a man, Dorgan <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2023184227240730760">posted</a>, &#8220;Keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.” He <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2023182462449582173">added</a> in another post, “Go f your mutha.”
After Alex Jones responded to Sorbo’s post by saying, “creepy,” Dorgan wrote, “stfu Alex dont be so butt hurtt over somebody different. then wonder why trans ppl go fkn BERSERK.”
The shooting comes just days after a transgender-identifying man <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-confirms-trans-themed-page-is-linked-to-canada-mass-shooting-suspect">opened fire</a> at a school in Canada, killing six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia. Transgender-identifying shooters also carried out deadly attacks on Christian schools in Nashville in 2023 and in Minneapolis in 2025. In the aftermath of the Minneapolis shooting, officials in the Justice Department began considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender-identifying people. 
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Other posts from Dorgan show him telling conservatives to compromise on transgender ideology and discussing how his wife did not approve of his decision to identify as a woman. 
In September 2018, Dorgan shared an article called “What Is It Like Being Married To A Transgender Woman.” Dorgan <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/1044966909031174144">wrote</a>, “My wife says she Hates the person who stole her husband. I think it&#8217;s extremely important to take special care of those who stand by us. Listen and understand what they are going through for our sake!”
In another <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/1126645396061683717">post</a> from May 2019, he wrote, “Transwoman, 6 kids: wife- not thrilled.”
Dorgan called the young woman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-awarded-millions-in-first-malpractice-verdict-this-is-how-it-all-ends">who won</a> $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after she had her breasts removed at age 16 because she identified as a boy a “jerk” and an “a hole.” 
“Total utter BS. that jerk signed off on his / her own procedures. no one put a GD  to their head. Now ppl trying to help you get sued?! f &#8211; that tuff toenails baby,” he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2019484188366275007">wrote</a> on February 5, 2026.
In another post, he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2019484530340479020">wrote</a>, “now the ‘conservative-inc’ has some juicy BS talking points from some A hole nutjob looking for a quick buck. shouldnt pay out one dime.”
Dorgan also downplayed concerns about men going into women’s bathrooms because of their gender confusion. 
“Ask women this basic question: do you see more at a beach or a restroom? case closed no ones Ever seen another persons nipple or [women’s genitalia] in a  ladies room,” he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2018367864617472178">wrote</a>.
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In another post, Dorgan <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2018366948384333912">chalked</a> up a Canadian court ordering the state health agency to craft a custom vagina for a man while leaving his penis intact to “body jewelry/modification.”
He also <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2022022364498997304">appeared</a> to claim that historical figures like Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and King James <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2020871905834602867">were</a> all gay. 
Dorgan claimed to be a conservative, and he frequently shared posts from conservative figures like White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, undercover journalist James O’Keefe, and others. 
More posts show Dorgan <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2018805971515269485">claiming</a> that he was conservative because he hated taxes, abortion, and supported the Second Amendment. “My gripe is the knee jerk reaction that ‘ALL’ lgbt are ‘D’,” he wrote. 
He also objected to the suggestion that LGBT identifying people were on the left. “Hey MF whole bunch of LGBT aint commies aight,” he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2016571046153900195">wrote</a>. In another, he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2019453648808387038">said</a>, “support conservative trans ppl.”
“Rugged -Individual Conservatives are somehow Obsessed with my shirt, my chromosomes and whats in my underwear. its freakin Bizzare,” he wrote in one <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2018366555025764444">post</a>. 
In another, he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2015463067216216476">wrote</a>: “Honest question how is what’s in my underwear related to you somehow this is what I can’t understand with the political right in general my genitals take up permanent space inside your head for no reason whatsoever.”
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Dorgan frequently shared posts from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R), and often interacted with posts related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 
At the same time, he frequently shared clips of white nationalist Nick Fuentes speaking, <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2022671035536150787">calling</a> Fuentes “sXe.”
One post he shared <a href="https://x.com/TheRISEofROD/status/2002252987750604990">claimed</a> that the “Jews killed Charlie,” and another wildly <a href="https://x.com/cirnosad/status/1966349804830863721">asserted</a> that Israel orchestrated Kirk’s assassination so that Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro could take over Turning Point USA. 
The suspect accused of assassinating Kirk had a trans-identifying romantic partner. 
Other posts <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2022304728915353966">alluded</a> to American neonazi William Pierce, praised music videos <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2020665366846804138">glorifying</a> the Nazis, and suggested he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2021587533243515352">embraced</a> “world wide white pride.” In October 2024, he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/1849107125592523025">wrote</a> that he was “post op” transgender and “to the right of Hitler.” 
Photos on social media circulating of Dorgan appeared to show he had Nazi-affiliated tattoos. 
He frequently commented on pornographic posts at the same time as he obsessed about the influence of Jeffrey Epstein. One disturbing photo he shared on X showed Dorgan posing in a thong while standing outside admiring a motorcycle. 
Law enforcement said that Dorgan had two guns on him, a Glock 10 mm and a SIG Sauer P226. In a post from January 31, 2026, he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2017636206184456606">boasted</a> about having a 10mm 357SIG. Ironically, he <a href="https://x.com/Tgirlcuda/status/2015466436819288117">wrote</a> on January 25, 2025, less than one month before the shooting, that “rational, thinking, people realize that there are certain places you’re simply not allowed to carry.”
Family members have come out and said that the shooting was motivated by anger at his family. 
“I just want to make sure people understand this was one person’s vendetta against their family,” Amanda Wallace-Hubbard, Dorgan’s daughter, <a href="https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/this-was-one-persons-vendetta-daughter-speaks-out-on-pawtucket-suspect/">told</a> WPRI.  
“We were targeted,” she added. “This was very specific. It wasn’t random.&#8221;

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Ten people are dead, and at least 25 more were injured after a shooter who was reportedly wearing a dress opened fire at a rural Canadian school on Tuesday. 
The mass shooting took place at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in northeastern British Columbia, serving students in grades 7 through 12, where seven people were killed. The shooter then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. Investigators said they found two other people dead at a nearby home and believe it was connected to the school attack. Police have not yet released the attacker&#8217;s identity, but <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2021422026024681595">described</a> the shooter as a &#8220;gun person.&#8221; Authorities initially described the suspect as a person with brown hair and wearing a dress. 
When reached for comment by The Daily Wire, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police refused to confirm the sex of the shooter.
&#8220;We are unable to confirm identity publicly at this time. Updates will be provided as information becomes available. As such, I don&#8217;t have a timeline of when the next availability will be,&#8221; spokeswoman Vanessa Munn told The Daily Wire. 
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Six of the victims died at the school, while a seventh died while being transported to the hospital. Two others were airlifted with serious injuries, while 25 others were being treated for minor injuries. 
The investigation into the shooting is being handled by the Major Crime Division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Law enforcement said they were checking other locations for any additional victims. 
“This was a rapidly evolving and dynamic situation, and the swift cooperation from the school, first responders, and the community played a critical role in our response,” North District Commander Ken Floyd said. “Our thoughts are with the families, loved ones, and all those impacted by this tragic incident. This has been an incredibly difficult and emotional day for our community, and we are grateful for the cooperation shown as officers continue their work to advance the investigation.”
Floyd said later that police had no indication of motive, saying he thought investigators would “struggle to determine the ‘why’, but we will try our best to determine what transpired.”
The attack was one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history. 
“My prayers and deepest condolences are with the families and friends who have lost loved ones to these horrific acts of violence,” said Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “I join Canadians in grieving with those whose lives have been changed irreversibly today, and in gratitude for the courage and selflessness of the first responders who risked their lives to protect their fellow citizens.”
Tumbler Ridge is a city of around 2400 people, and fewer than 200 students were <a href="https://studentsuccess.gov.bc.ca/school/05959027/report/contextual-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enrolled</a> at the school.
&#8220;I will know every victim. I&#8217;ve been here 19 years, and we&#8217;re a small community,&#8221; Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/active-shooter-alert-tumbler-ridge-secondary-school-bc-live-updates-9.7083740?ts=1770782426680">told</a> CBC. &#8220;I don&#8217;t call them residents. I call them family.&#8221;

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10 Dead, At Least 25 Injured After ‘Gun Person’ Wearing A Dress Opens Fire At Canadian School

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The 28-year-old transgender-identifying woman who murdered six people at a Christian school in Nashville in March 2023 hated white people and religion, portions of her newly released writings reveal. 
The FBI <a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/nashville-covenant-school-shooting/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-part-06/view">posted</a> more of the disturbing ramblings of The Covenant School attacker on December 22, including notes that suggest she purchased the weapon used in the killings using federal financial aid. The writings were published after a judge ordered the agency to release documents related to the attack. 
The latest release includes 230 pages of the shooter’s notes and plans leading up to the mass murder. On March 27, 2023, she entered the school and killed three young children and three adults before she was fatally shot by Nashville police officers. 
Among the pages published by the FBI, the attacker listed “advantages” of targeting The Covenant School, where she had attended for a few years. She noted that the school was a “predominantly white school (white pple I hate)” and that it was a “Christian school (hate religion).”
The writings also reveal that the attacker considered targeting a middle school in the Nashville area, but leaned against it because a higher percentage of black students were enrolled there. 
The shooter wrote that school would be in line with her goals because a “massacre” there would be “more notorious/prolific.” Still, she said the “disadvantages” were that it was a “predominantly black school (black people I love),” adding that it would put “black people in dispair + suffering (I don’t want to cause that).” 
Also in the writings, included references that she appeared to use student loan money to purchase the gun used in the attack. In a section of the writings labeled “Account Savings Record,” she listed off various sources of income, including “FASFA [sic] grant checks started at $2,050.86,” followed by entries like “$2,656.87 (x3 checks from Nossi)” and “+$530.00 (x1 check Nossi) ($3,186.87).”
The shooter appeared to be referencing checks from her time at Nossi College of Art and Design in Nashville and from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Those entries followed a list of gun and ammo expenses. The attacker’s parents previously told investigators that she bought the firearm she used in the massacre with Pell Grant funds. 
Most of the newly released pages focus on different types of guns, ammunition, and local gun stores and ranges. Receipts included indicate that just months before the attack, she took several gun classes at the Royal Range in Nashville. She also expounded on “Biden’s horrible gun plans.&#8221; 
The writings also included many references to previous mass shooters and noted the number of victims in each incident. 
The Nashville police department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-in-final-report-downplay-covenant-shooters-transgender-identity-hatred-of-christianity?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Nashville+Police+In+Final+Report+Downplay+Covenant+Shooter’s+Transgender+Identity%2C+Hatred+Of+Christianity">released</a> its final report on the attack in April and downplayed the shooter&#8217;s transgender identity and documented animus toward Christianity, white people, and the wealthy. Instead, the department said that she wanted to gain notoriety.
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This final report didn’t appear to fully take into account the attacker’s transgender identity, which dominated her life.
In journal entries previously published by The Daily Wire, she wrote just weeks before the deadly shooting about her fantasy of having an “imaginary penis” and said that it was a “f***ing curse” that she was born a woman.
“I want to know what that’s like, but I never will because I was damned to be born this way,” she wrote in the journal of her desire to have a penis. “I swear to f*** I hate it so goddamned much. It’s a f***ing curse.”

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Police in Rhode Island released &#8220;enhanced&#8221; footage on Tuesday of a person of interest in the shooting at Brown University that left two dead and nine injured as the hunt for the gunman continues. 
The Providence Police Department released the footage of a person of interest walking down the street before the shooting took place. The footage shows a person wearing a hat and mask walking along the street and through neighborhoods a few hours before the attack. 
“We are releasing an enhanced video of the person of interest in the Brown University incident. Footage was captured on the East Side of Providence on Saturday afternoon before the incident,” they posted on X. 
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ENHANCED VIDEO: We are releasing an enhanced video of the person of interest in the Brown University incident. Footage was captured on the East Side of Providence on Saturday afternoon before the incident.
Please share widely and contact the official tip line if you have… <a href="https://t.co/mewBSflOiO">pic.twitter.com/mewBSflOiO</a>
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2001035754898653196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The university has faced criticism over the little amount of footage they have released so far related to the shooting, including from President Donald Trump. 
“Why did Brown University have so few Security Cameras? There can be no excuse for that,” Trump posted on Truth Social. &#8220;In the modern age, it just doesn’t get worse!!!”
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During a press conference, authorities were asked about the lack of footage released to the public so far. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that there was additional footage that showed “chaos” after the shooting, but none that would help identify the attacker.
“There are cameras that they have in place in an effort to protect their students. And unfortunately here, given location, given age of building there, we just don&#8217;t have additional video footage,” he said. “Trust me, I wish we did, but we don&#8217;t.”
The FBI, which is assisting in the investigation, also shared the footage and asked for anyone with tips on the incident or the person of interest to report it to the authorities. They are offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the culprit. 
The manhunt for the gunman has now entered day five as police have still not named any suspects or motive. There have been reports that the gunman shouted something during the shooting, but law enforcement have not yet confirmed that. 
“There&#8217;s nothing about what we know was perhaps said that indicates any kind of motive that is related at all to ethnicity or political outlook or culture. There&#8217;s nothing at all that we know right now about that. And I think that is a dangerous road to go down, particularly in today&#8217;s environment,” Neronha said. 
The two students who were killed in the attack have been identified as 19-year-old University College Republicans Vice President Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.

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One of the dumbest things we can do is flatten all ideologies and pretend all human beings think the same way.
Every time someone does this, you end up with the worst possible policy.
If you say, for example, all human beings have a yearning in their human heart for freedom in the same exact way, that can very easily lead you to the policies pursued by the George W. Bush administration, in which the president declared that the goal of the United States was to end tyranny on planet Earth.
Of course, that is not a sustainable goal, because it assumes that everyone has the same priorities that you have.
In the same way, when you suggest that all acts of violence are equivalent, when you abstract terrible things happening to the level of the general, when you say, “Okay, there&#8217;s a specific terror act directed at whites or Jews or blacks” — instead of looking at the specific cause that is being pursued, instead of looking at the specific ideological matrix used to justify and foment violence, you simply say “Violence is bad, and all human beings should just know that violence is bad,” you are preventing the actual solutions to those problems.
That’s because if you refuse to face up to the fact that certain ideas are worse than other ideas, certain cultures are worse than other cultures, certain ideological frameworks are worse than other ideological frameworks, you&#8217;re missing the motivating factor in human action.
Instead, what you end up with is a blunderbuss foreign policy that differentially strikes groups in an unfair and stupid way. 
The other day, Sunny Hostin of The View did a signal version of this. She was commenting on the mass shooting in Bondi Beach in Sydney against Jews by two Islamists.
Here is what she had to say:
<blockquote>I used to think that gun violence was just an American phenomenon. And now we see this sort of anti-Semitic attack in Australia on the first day of Hanukkah, which is so disgusting and disturbing. And then, you know, kids going to college at Brown in the middle of finals getting murdered. What those families went through? Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? </blockquote>
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The View is a purveyor of hate. Now, after the tragic weekend, they wonder why there&#8217;s so much hate. 
&#8220;Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? Not just in this country,&#8221; Sunny Hostin, one of the most hate-fueled people on TV. <a href="https://t.co/ox73cTuPq6">pic.twitter.com/ox73cTuPq6</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2000599580283420709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world?” That’s fine on the level of a two-year-old.
But let&#8217;s be very clear. Different ideological groups commit different types of crimes. Some commit no crimes. Some actually promote peace. Some ideologies promote vast terror attacks, such as radical Islamism.
But when you reduce everything to “It&#8217;s just an act of violence,” or to the tool, such as a gun; when you look at the Brown University shooting, where we still don&#8217;t know the motive, and then you look at what happened in Sydney, Australia, where you absolutely know the motive and you flatten that out and pretend they are both the same, you&#8217;re preventing the implementation of policies that would actually prevent shootings.
That’s because there actually are ways to target radical Islam in, for example, Sydney, Australia: Don&#8217;t import more radical Muslims. Surveil radical mosques. Create a better security apparatus. Have a government that does not grant credibility to radical Islamists and their arguments.
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There are many ways to fight particular ideologies or particular ideas.
But when you flatten that all out to the idea that it&#8217;s all just “gun violence,” you are preventing a solution.
That is often the core of the debate between the Right and the Left, the traditional Right and Left.
I always have to clarify this because there are people who exist on the so-called political Right who are not in any real way conservative; they just don&#8217;t like some of the elements of the Left.
But traditional conservative thinking suggests that human beings are motivated by the ideas and ideologies they carry, and also that human beings are deeply flawed. They&#8217;re not inherently good; human beings have the capacity for greatness and also the capacity for sin.
All of this is embedded in Federalist 51, in which James Madison argues that if human beings were angels, you wouldn&#8217;t need a government in order to govern them because they would be angels.
Once you recognize the reality of human flaws and nature, once you recognize that people change their behavior based on the ideologies that they hold, then it makes it possible to look at the outgrowth of particular ideologies and then fight those ideas.
Otherwise, what you end up with is a very bad and stupid public policy.

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A person of interest detained over the shooting at Brown University that left two dead and nine injured has been released as law enforcement continues to hunt for the gunman, officials said late Sunday. 
That announcement came one day after a gunman wearing all black stormed an engineering building and opened fire on a group of students studying for finals. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that evidence pointed law enforcement in a different direction. 
“There was some degree of evidence that pointed to this individual, but that evidence needed to be corroborated and confirmed,” he said at a press conference on Sunday. “That evidence now points in a different direction. So what that means is that this person of interest needs to be, and should be released.”
Neronha added that it was unfortunate that specific information about the person of interest had been leaked to the media. 
“I think what is really unfortunate [is] that this person&#8217;s name was leaked to the public. It&#8217;s hard to put that back in the bottle, OK? So we&#8217;re going to proceed very carefully here,” he said. “ There is too much at stake for the victims of this horrific crime and their families to take chances with respect to this investigation.”
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When the person of interest was initially detained by law enforcement, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said that authorities were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack. Perez said Sunday that the person of interest was not the individual captured on video that was released by the police department. Law enforcement is still looking for the person shown in the video.
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Video of person of interest in Brown shooting: <a href="https://t.co/fjufQ3MTdC">pic.twitter.com/fjufQ3MTdC</a>
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At the same press conference, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said the investigation was ongoing but that they did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the community.  
“We know that this is likely to cause fresh anxiety for our community, and we want to reiterate what we said earlier, which remains true, which is ever since the initial call, now a day and a half ago, we have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community,” he said. 
Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee said he spoke with FBI Director Kash Patel before the press conference to inform him that the person of interest would be released. He said Patel told him federal resources would continue to be provided while the search was ongoing.

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If you didn&#8217;t see Tucker Carlson&#8217;s recent segment on Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old man who nearly assassinated Donald Trump live on national television during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, there are a few important revelations you should know about.
The first revelation — which isn&#8217;t remotely controversial — is that the FBI has clearly been hiding relevant information about Thomas Crooks from the general public. And by itself, that&#8217;s a national scandal that justifies completely gutting the FBI, from the highest levels on down. Even if you firmly believe that Thomas Crooks was a lone gunman, and even if you believe that the Secret Service was merely incompetent (as opposed to complicit) — the fact remains, our government has been withholding important details about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump&#8217;s life, without any justification whatsoever.
We should not have to rely on Tucker Carlson, or any podcaster, to tell us that Thomas Crooks left a lengthy trail of comments on YouTube, in which he openly called for political violence for several years.
These calls were so overt, and so disturbing, that one user wrote in response to Crooks:
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<blockquote>You&#8217;re on YouTube threatening to shoot government officials. I sure hope the FBI is monitoring social media for violent nutcases.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s almost too on-the-nose to be real. But that comment is still available on YouTube, to this day. Thomas Crooks&#8217; account has been suspended, and all of his comments have been hidden. They&#8217;re only accessible using the Internet archive website. But the replies are still there. And yet, more than a year after the assassination attempt in Butler, we have to rely on Tucker Carlson to tell us about any of this. That is completely, overwhelmingly, unequivocally unacceptable. It shouldn’t fall to anyone in the media to tell us what Thomas Crooks was saying online — and how people were reacting to his comments.
We also shouldn&#8217;t have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Thomas Crooks decided, sometime during the COVID lockdowns, to completely reverse his political views, and to begin openly attacking Donald Trump and his administration on social media. And we certainly shouldn&#8217;t have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Crooks was in contact with a mysterious person — who remains unidentified, beyond the online alias &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221; — who openly encouraged Crooks to commit acts of violence.
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At one point, Willy Tepes wrote to Crooks, 
<blockquote>&#8230;authority obviously comes from the barrel of a gun. We have more guns than they do. There is no way we can avoid a war at this point, so you better just get used to the idea.</blockquote>
In common parlance, this is known as &#8220;fed posting.&#8221; Willy Tepes is almost being too obvious about it. He understands that Thomas Crooks is a radical who&#8217;s prone to violence. He sees that Crooks is posting about acts of violence against political officials — and that Crooks wrote, at one point, that even the White House could be overwhelmed if enough Americans took up arms. Willy Tepes is aware of all this. And instead of expressing concern, he encourages Crooks to go to war.
Is it possible that this is just some random internet troll? Of course it is. It&#8217;s also possible that &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221; was working with a government agency or a terror cell — either in this country or some other country — to groom potential assassins. In fact, given how weird &#8220;Willy&#8217;s&#8221; comments were — and to be clear, he replied to Crooks multiple times — it seems very likely that he was trying to groom Thomas Crooks. So what has the FBI done to investigate Willy Tepes? What have they done to figure out his identity? Why is Tucker’s show the first time — literally, the first time — that anyone in this country has heard the name &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221;?
That is inexcusable, for about a million different reasons. It&#8217;s not the FBI&#8217;s job to determine what information is worth sharing to the public, or what information they deem is &#8220;important.&#8221; When it comes to the near-assassination of the leading presidential candidate, no detail is irrelevant. If Thomas Crooks went bowling every week, we should know that. If Thomas Crooks loved the film &#8220;Good Will Hunting,&#8221; we should know that. And certainly, if he was in regular communication with an anonymous person who sounded a lot like a fed, we should know that, too. At the very least we should know something about this guy. But if the feds had their way, we would know nothing at all. And that’s what we knew — nothing — until this week.
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And on top of that, beyond the transparency issues, it would obviously help the government&#8217;s investigation to raise awareness about these posts. Maybe someone, somewhere, knows who &#8220;Willy Tepes&#8221; is. And as long as Willy Tepes isn&#8217;t the alias for a CIA agent or something like that, then you&#8217;d think your government would want someone to come forward and identify him immediately. But that&#8217;s not possible if they bury his identity, and all information about him.
And then there&#8217;s the fact that Crooks&#8217;s PayPal account, for one reason or another, uses the name of an ex-FBI agent who worked in Pennsylvania, and who investigated the Las Vegas mass shooting — the one where no motive has ever been established. What exactly is going on there? We have no idea, because again, this is the first time anyone&#8217;s hearing about any of this. Our government — under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration — made the conscious decision to hide all of this information from us. The only reason we&#8217;re hearing about it now is that a random source got in contact with Tucker Carlson&#8217;s team, and tipped him off to Crooks&#8217; online history. And because this information remains uncontested by the FBI, several days after Tucker Carlson&#8217;s broadcast, we can assume it&#8217;s all true.
So let&#8217;s pause for a minute here, and zoom out. Let&#8217;s really think about what&#8217;s happened here. This is the official narrative. Last summer, Thomas Crooks — supposedly an untrained 20-year-old with an angry, inconsistent social media history — managed to outwit the Secret Service and gain access to a roof 500 feet away from Donald Trump. 
And he wasn&#8217;t particularly subtle about it. As you can see here, he was clearly visible, running along the rooftop as Trump spoke.
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CRAZY. This video is from James Copenhaver &#8211; one of the bystanders who was shot twice and critically wounded during the assassination attempt against Trump. It CLEARLY shows Crooks&#8217; head scurrying on the rooftop moments before the shooting.
Takeaway: Secret Service BLEW IT and… <a href="https://t.co/1rP6083ZFH">pic.twitter.com/1rP6083ZFH</a>
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) <a href="https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1818701467190165566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But the Secret Service didn&#8217;t notice him — even though random attendees in the crowd were suspicious, and notified law enforcement. Somehow the Secret Service didn&#8217;t have anyone on the roof — because it was too &#8220;sloped&#8221; — and somehow the Secret Service counter-snipers couldn&#8217;t see any of this. They only shot Thomas Crooks after he unloaded several shots at Donald Trump, including a shot that hit Trump in the head. And coincidentally enough, the rally in Butler was the first time that the Secret Service had deployed counter-snipers to a Trump rally during the 2024 campaign season. Yes, the Secret Service snipers made their debut at the Butler rally — just in time to neutralize Thomas Crooks after he got his shots off. 
So in a very tidy fashion, Thomas Crooks was quickly erased from the picture. No one could question him. No one could put him on trial. And then a funny thing happened. No one really investigated Thomas Crooks. No one told us anything about his social media posts, or his political views — beyond the claim that he was a Trump supporter, which was false. It took more than a year for us to learn that, in fact, Thomas Crooks was openly promising to commit violence on social media — and that someone was encouraging him to do so.
But the story gets even stranger from there. 
Less than 48 hours after Tucker&#8217;s reporting, out of nowhere, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/us-news/thomas-crooks-used-they-them-pronouns-had-obsession-with-violence-and-muscle-mommies-sources/">published</a> this exclusive information.
<blockquote>Thomas Crooks used they/them pronouns and posted threats of political violence and violent art on his secret social media accounts before he attempted to assassinate President Trump, according to sources who shared the suspected messages with The Post. &#8230; .Crooks had two possible accounts on DeviantArt, a site that hosts fan art and has become notorious for its community of furries — people who identify as anthropomorphized animal characters and/or are sexually attracted to them. One of the DeviantArt accounts linked to Crooks shared just one post, a repost of a towering, muscular female bodybuilder and a slight man in his underwear.</blockquote>
Separately, the Post&#8217;s Miranda Devine reported that Crooks, &#8220;had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads.&#8221;
This seems to be a clear case of yet another psychologically disturbed mass shooter — someone who had been indoctrinated into the LGBT cult — turning to violence. Which is not a particularly surprising development. As I&#8217;ve said repeatedly, the LGBT cult is the single greatest domestic terror threat this country faces. In just the past few years, trans-identifying terrorists have shot up multiple Christian churches and schools. &#8220;Non-binary&#8221; mass shooters have targeted high schools and bars. A Leftist living with a &#8220;furry&#8221; assassinated Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people.
Put simply, trans extremism is an epidemic. And the pattern of trans and “non-binary” violence is not at all surprising, even though the media tries to cover it up. Any man who identifies as a woman or a “they/them” is mentally unstable by definition. It seems nearly certain that all of these people were on psychiatric meds and in some cases hormones. And there&#8217;s another common theme here as well, which is that all of these violent LGBT shooters all probably developed their “gender identity” from consuming hundreds of hours of porn. The gender stuff is the product of extreme nihilism and extreme perversion. A steady long term diet of pornography turns anyone into a nihilist pervert. It’s not a far leap to get from that to murderer.
That&#8217;s why it’s not exactly shocking to hear that Thomas Crooks was also a member of the &#8220;they/them&#8221; cult, who regularly consumed various degenerate forms of media. At this point, you almost expect the investigation to uncover something like this. Thomas Crooks is yet another violent LGBT-linked killer, to add to a very disturbing, and fast growing, list.
There were some concerns expressed by some commentators that perhaps this revelation was an intentional diversion. A targeted leak, intended to distract us from the investigation that Tucker Carlson just published. That does seem like something the FBI might try to do, but that’s not what happened in this case. Miranda Devine has made it clear that her source is the same as Tucker’s — the information didn&#8217;t come from the FBI. Devine also provided more information on the Willy Tepes character, who was first identified by Tucker Carlson. 
Here&#8217;s what Devine <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/opinion/fbi-secret-service-butchered-the-thomas-crooks-case-and-invited-conspiracies-we-deserve-the-truth/">wrote</a>.
<blockquote>One of the people Crooks interacted with online was &#8216;Willy Tepes,&#8217; a member of Norwegian neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement, which has since been designated a terrorist organization by the State Department. In one comment on Oct. 5, 2025, more than a year after Butler, Tepes commented to another user that he had been contacted by both Russian and American intelligence. &#8216;People who ask you to contact them when they just as easily could contact you, are Feds. This is how they avoid entrapment. Both American and Russian intelligence does this. I have chatted to both.&#8217; Tepes said.</blockquote>
There are only two possibilities here. The first possibility is that we&#8217;re seeing a monumental, unforgivable failure by the FBI — a degree of incompetence that&#8217;s simply staggering. Maybe they missed all of these chats. Or maybe they didn&#8217;t think they were relevant, and just never got around to releasing them. So they&#8217;re left to respond with pathetic &#8220;rapid response&#8221; press releases when Tucker Carlson and Miranda Devine publish investigative reports a year later. That&#8217;s the best-case scenario. That is the absolute, best-case scenario we&#8217;re dealing with.
The worst-case scenario is almost too dark to say out loud. But I&#8217;ll try my best. The worst-case scenario is that the FBI has been hiding all of this information about Thomas Crooks for the same reason that the Secret Service — supposedly the most elite protective force in the entire world — failed to secure that slightly-sloped roof 400 feet away from Donald Trump, with a direct line-of-sight to his head. The worst-case scenario is that the leadership of our intelligence agencies want Donald Trump dead. And if that&#8217;s the case, then there&#8217;s no reason to think they&#8217;re going to stop trying to kill him.
It&#8217;s not my job, or your job, to decide between these scenarios. It&#8217;s the job of our government, out of an abundance of transparency, to absolve itself completely of any responsibility in the attempt to murder Donald Trump. They should be telling us everything they know, even if they don&#8217;t think the information is relevant. But our government has not done so. And for that reason, it&#8217;s not insane or paranoid to assume the worst, or at least to consider it a very real possibility. For one reason or another, we aren’t being told the whole story, or even an incomplete story. And it’s way past time for us to ask one question: why?

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Authorities are searching for a gunman who opened fire at a crowded South Carolina bar early Sunday morning, killing four people and wounding 20 others.
Hundreds of people gathered at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island for a high school reunion party Saturday night into Sunday morning when gunfire erupted, forcing the crowd to run to nearby businesses to find cover. Beaufort County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived on the scene around 1:00 a.m. and found that numerous people had been shot, according to ABC&#8217;s Charleston affiliate, <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/20-injured-4-killed-in-early-morning-shooting-at-beaufort-county-bar-wciv-abc-news-4-charleston-sc-south-carolina-beaufort-county-sheriffs-office">WCIV</a>.
Four people were declared dead, while the other victims were transported to the hospital. Four of the 20 people who were wounded in the shooting were in critical condition. It appears that the shooting took place outside the bar, where there was a party for alumni of Battery Creek High School.
St. Helena Island is 50 miles north of Savannah, Georgia.
The mass shooting remains under investigation. The Beaufort County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BeaufortCountySheriffsOfficeSC/">said</a> it is &#8220;investigating persons of interest,&#8221; but has not released any information about them as of Monday morning. The sheriff&#8217;s office is also waiting to notify the families of victims before it releases any information on their identities.
&#8220;This is a tragic and difficult incident for everyone. We ask for your patience as we continue to investigate this incident. Our thoughts are with all of the victims and their loved ones,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.
The sheriff&#8217;s office also said that the public can <a href="https://tipsbft.com/sitemenu.aspx?ID=1017&amp;">submit anonymous tips</a> if anyone has information regarding the shooting.
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Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, whose district includes St. Helena Island, <a href="https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/1977370951953068193">said</a> that she was &#8220;completely heartbroken.&#8221;
&#8220;Our prayers are with the victims, their families, and everyone impacted by this horrific act of violence,&#8221; Mace added. &#8220;If you have any information, please contact the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office at 843-255-3418, as soon as humanly possible.&#8221;
The deadly shooting in South Carolina came just weeks after three people were killed and five were wounded in a &#8220;highly premeditated&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-dead-8-injured-person-shot-boat-north-carolina-waterfront-bar-rcna234168">shooting</a> at a North Carolina waterfront bar. The gunman in the North Carolina bar attack fired upon victims from his boat before speeding off. Authorities arrested a 40-year-old Marine veteran and charged him with three counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted first-degree murder, among other crimes.

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In the days following the attack in which four people were killed and eight more were wounded at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, Mormons who were grieving the tragedy did the unthinkable: They began raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the family of the man who shot and killed Latter-day Saints.
A <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/helptheSanfordfamily">GiveSendGo fundraiser</a> set up for the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford has raised more than $265,000, with many of the donations coming from members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/10/01/lds-mormon-church-shooting-fundraiser-sanford/">reported</a>. On Sunday, Sanford drove his truck into the building of a Latter-day Saints church in Grand Blanc Township before stepping out of the vehicle and opening fire with a semiautomatic rifle, according to authorities. Sanford was also suspected of setting a fire to the church building before responding police officers killed him.
Four people were killed in the attack, which appeared to be motivated by the gunman’s hostility toward Mormons. While federal authorities have not officially released a motive for the deadly attack, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-believe-michigan-church-shooter-hated-people-of-the-mormon-faith?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Feds+Believe+Michigan+Church+Shooter+%E2%80%98Hated+People+Of+The+Mormon+Faith%E2%80%99">told</a> “Fox &amp; Friends” earlier this week that federal authorities believe Sanford “hated people of the Mormon faith.”
After the attack, multiple fundraisers were started for victims of the shooting, but one Latter-day Saint living in Utah also wanted to reach out to the family of the shooter, whom he said are also “victims” of the tragedy, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/lds-church-michigan-grand-blanc-township.html">The New York Times</a>.
“One of the families that suffered a terrible loss on that day was the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the shooter,” states the GiveSendGo fundraiser started by David Butler. “Sanford leaves behind a wife and children who must be grieving. They will face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of this week’s horrifying events. On top of that, one of the Sanford sons deals with serious medical challenges that require ongoing care, treatment, and specialized support. In the past, the family attempted to raise funds for him, but with limited success.”
Sanford’s son was diagnosed with congenital hyperinsulinism, a rare condition that <a href="https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/congenital-hyperinsulinism">causes</a> the body to produce too much insulin, resulting in low blood sugar that can lead to major problems for infants and young children.
Sanford’s father told the Post in a text message that it was hard to “find any words to express” how grateful the family was for the donations.
“Our family is grieving so much right now, I can’t find any words to express our appreciation but the right time will eventually come, thank you so much,” Sanford’s father said.

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