Thomas Jacob Sanford, the suspect in a mass shooting at a Mormon Church in Michigan on Sunday, espoused anti-Mormon views within a week of the deadly incident, according to a local city council candidate.

Less than a week before a gunman carried out a deadly shooting at a church in Genesee County, the shooter had expressed what one man is calling "true religious animosity."

Although an official motive for the Michigan church shooting has yet to be revealed, gunman Thomas Jacob Sanford's acquaintances have opened up about his years-old point-of-view in recent interviews.

Leavitt said on Fox & Friends that she had a conversation with FBI director Kash Patel about Thomas Jacob Sanford, who drove his pickup truck Sunday into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, opened fire on worshippers, and set the building ablaze.

When the horror of yesterday’s mass shooting spread across the news, Thomas Sanford’s neighbors recognized the man in the photo, and they recognized his truck, too.

The expletives and religious slurs directed at Mormons took place as No. 23 BYU beat Colorado 24-21 at Folsom Field.

A local politician has revealed his chilling conversation with the suspect in the deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan just days before the shooting. Four people were killed and eight were injured when a gunman drove into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Grand Blanc on Sunday morning before opening fire and setting the building on fire.