FBI probing Michigan church shooting as 'targeted violence'
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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An assailant killed at least four people at a Michigan church during Sunday service. Plus, a suspect has been charged in a Saturday shooting in North Carolina.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington Monday.
USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes discusses how some who grew up under authoritarian regimes are worried about what's happening stateside.
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling with protesters during 2020 racial justice protests.
USA TODAY Senior Reporter Jessica Guynn tells us about Costco - and other retail - superfans.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. Today is Monday, September 29th, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excert. |
| 0:15.2 | Today, the FBI is probing yesterday's Michigan church shooting as targeted violence. Plus Netanyahu will meet with Trump later, |
| 0:22.3 | and we hear about some of the super fans of retail chains. |
| 0:28.4 | At least four people were killed and several others injured |
| 0:31.2 | after a man crashed a vehicle into a Michigan church, |
| 0:34.2 | opened fire with a rifle, |
| 0:35.4 | and then set the building on fire during Sunday |
| 0:37.8 | service, according to authorities. And some were said to be unaccounted for. The suspect has been |
| 0:42.7 | identified as a 40-year-old man who police say died after exchanging gunfire with responding |
| 0:47.8 | officers in the church's parking lot. Hundreds of people were attending the service at the Church |
| 0:52.5 | of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, a suburb of Flint, Michigan, when the suspect rammed a pickup truck into the church before exiting the vehicle and opening fire with an assault rifle, according to police. The FBI is leading the investigation into the shooting and is investigating the incident as an act of targeted violence. The suspect's hometown of Burden is about |
| 1:11.1 | eight miles from Grand Blanc where the violence took place. The shooting and fire come after |
| 1:15.5 | another shooting earlier in the weekend, this one in coastal North Carolina. In that incident |
| 1:20.2 | on Saturday night in the city of Southport, three people were killed and eight injured at a |
| 1:24.7 | Riverside bar. Another 40-year-old man is the suspect, and he was detained |
| 1:28.5 | by the Coast Guard shortly after the incident. You can read more about both shootings on |
| 1:32.8 | USA Today.com. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to the White House today, |
| 1:42.3 | with President Donald Trump set to push a Gaza peace proposal. |
| 1:45.8 | It's the Israeli leader's fourth visit since Trump returned to office earlier this year, |
| 1:49.7 | and it comes as his country faces growing international isolation. |
| 1:53.4 | At the UN General Assembly on Friday, many delegates walked out in protest as Netanyahu spoke. |
| 1:58.8 | In his comments, he called it a disgraceful decision in recent days |
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