The suspect did not have a criminal history. His mother is a member of the church. The heavily armed man who tried to burst into a Sunday morning service at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne but was thwarted by parishioners who shot him dead was identified by police as 31-year-old Brian Browning of Romulus.

WAYNE, MI – Police have identified a man who was shot and killed by a security guard after he opened fire outside a Michigan church. According to the Associated Press, 31-year-old Brian Anthony Browning was killed outside CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne on Sunday.