Congregants were gathered Sunday for a special vacation Bible school service at CrossPointe Community Church when the shooting happened. A security guard killed gunman.

A pastor says God had a hand in preventing a mass shooting at his suburban Detroit church where more than 100 people had gathered to worship.

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 church security who shot him dead was identified by police as 31-year-old Brian Browning, of Romulus.