two separate shootings in Michigan and North Carolina!

NBC's Rory O'Neill reports on the Church shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan, killing 4, and another in North Carolina, killing 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six forty seven in the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's a Monday, Mike Elliott, Columbus's Morning news over the
Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line. It's where we
find Rory O'Neil NBC News Radio, and they're looking for
answers to a lot of questions in Grand Blank, Michigan.
Rory after the shooting yesterday morning at the Mormon chapel there.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
What's the latest, what's the story.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, they're hoping now with the sun about to come
up and the fact that the site has cooled down
quite literally, that they can start going through that rubble there. Sadly,
they do suspect that they'll be finding more victims inside
that debris. If you didn't hear a man in a
pickup truck rove through the front entrance of the church. Apparently,
witnesses say that after the crash, the people in the

(00:42):
church were so concerned they were actually running to the
truck to help. That's when the gunman, identified as an
ex marine named Thomas Sanford, got out and started shooting
with an assault rifle. Four people were killed again a
number that's expected to climb eight wounded. One of those
is still a very critical This hour.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
And he possibly used gasoline as an accelerant to start
a fire.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And then I'm you know, I'm seeing reports this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
There was there's possible suspected explosives that they may be
identifying if you heard that reporting right.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
So they believe they've found some IEDs in the bed
of the pickup truck, but they weren't used. You know,
the cops were there literally within thirty seconds. Wow, that
was the count A thirty second response time, So very fortunate.
The suspect in this case was killed in a shootout
with police, but not before setting fire to the building.
So that fire was devastating. The whole roof came in,

(01:35):
the walls are barely standing. It was a bad fire
because of the accelerants that were used. But we don't
think he got a chance to use the IEDs because
the police were there so quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, I guess the small victory there. Roy O'Neil, NBC
News Radio. And then on Saturday night in North Carolina
at a waterfront bar, a guy opened fire while sitting
in a boat.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, this is another forty year old Iraq war veteran
Nigel Edges this guy's name. Three people were killed there
five more injured. Apparently he was on his boat and
from his boat opened fire into the American Fish Company
there in Southport, sort of a bar dockside bar and
restaurant complex. Again, three killed, five injured. Police say this

(02:18):
was a targeted attack. The Edges facing multiple counts of
first degree murder. He'll be in court later today. He
was captured. They found him taking his boat out of
the water about a half an hour after the attack,
and that's how they got him in custody.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
They're sort of.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Known to him, the police that is, and there might
be a history of PCSD. That's part of the investigation.