Michigan church gunman called 911 with bomb threats to local churches minutes before attack

Gunman Thomas Jacob Sanford made his own call to emergency dispatchers minutes before he drove to a Michigan church in September, rammed his truck into the chapel, opened fire and set the building ablaze, according to newly released records.

The documents, released first to ABC News by Grand Blanc Township Police, offer new details about the moments leading up to the shooting and reveal harrowing eyewitness accounts of the chaotic scene inside.

Less than four minutes before calls began coming into 911 about an attack at the LDS church in Grand Blanc, Mich., Sanford himself phoned in a bomb threat about area churches, according to the records.

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