India, Sept. 30 -- Thomas Jacob Sanford's father broke silence after his son was identified as a suspect in the Michigan Church shooting. He said his family is "devastated" by his son's fatal spree and that they have "no answer" as to why the decorated Marine would have committed such a heinous act.

Thomas Sanford, the elder, recalled his son as an affectionate spouse and father who died in a gunfight with police outside the Latter-day Saints church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, after he crashed his pickup vehicle through the front door and set the structure on fire.

"He was an ex-Marine and we are completely in shock over this; we have no answers," he told NBC News.

He requested people for privacy as they grieve their loss as well as the ...