For staff at Michigan hospital, church shooting and fire hit close to home

The youngest patient to arrive at Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital after a shooting and fire at a Michigan church on Sunday morning was just 6 years old.

GRAND BLANC, Mich. — The youngest patient to arrive at Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital after a shooting and fire at a Michigan church on Sunday morning was just 6 years old. His demeanor, Dr. Sanford Ross recalled, was "stoic."

"He didn’t shed one tear. Mom was a wreck, which I, as a parent, completely understand,” said Ross, the assistant medical director of emergency medicine, recounting the young gunshot victim's harrowing ordeal. “They went through a horrible tragedy, something a child should never see — people being shot in front of them — and he comes walking in ... stoic."

Four people were killed in the attack and five, including the boy, were wounded by gunfire after a man drove into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township and opened fire with an assault rifle, authorities say.

The attacker also set the house of worship alight, police said, before he was shot dead by law enforcement. Three people were treated for smoke inhalation.

That day, some of the staff at Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital became patients.