GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Grand Blanc Township church shooter called in three bomb threats to nearby churches to misdirect police right before his real attack, authorities said.
The call to Genesee County 911 was made at 10:21 a.m. Sept. 28, 2025 -- just minutes before the attack that killed four people and injured several others at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
You can listen to the 911 audio in the vertical video below.
“Hey, I want to report there’s a bomb in the Mormon temple in Birmingham,“ the caller said. ”And there’s also a bomb in the River Church at Atlas on Perry Road.”
The Mormon temple in Birmingham is about 40 miles southeast of the site of the Grand Blanc Township attack.
The River Church on Perry Road is about seven miles northeast of the attack site.
When the 911 dispatcher asked the caller to “hold on,” he cut her off.
“No no no no no no, listen to me,” he said. “I’m going to talk. You’re going to listen to me. (Then) I’m going to hang up the phone. That’s it, OK?”
He went on to say there is also a bomb at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Grand Blanc Township -- about two miles north of the attack site.
Before the dispatcher could get any information, he hung up the phone.
Police believe the caller was Thomas Jacob Sanford, the person responsible for the attack.
Sanford drove his pickup truck through the front doors of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on McCandlish Road before getting out and firing shots with an assault rifle, according to authorities.