Wayne, Michigan church shooting

On June 22, 2025, a 31-year-old man, Brian Anthony Browning of Romulus, Michigan tried to burst into a Sunday morning service at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan. He shot and wounded one person in the leg, and was subsequently hit and wounded by a parishioner's car. He then was confronted by church security who shot him dead.

According to the church's pastor and those acquainted with Browning, he had been dealing with mental health issues and was struggling with his own relationship with his beliefs regarding the Christian religion. Browning had been an occasional visitor at the church, and his mother was also an occasional parishioner at the church, having been baptized there in October 2024.

Incident

At 11:15 a.m., about 100 people were at the church that morning. Browning was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, more than a dozen fully-loaded magazines, a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine. He fired several rounds into the church, wounding one person in his or her leg. Browning was quickly subdued by a deacon, Richard Pryor, who drove towards him, knocking him over. Browning went back into his truck and soon on then, a church-employed security guard, Jay Trombley, shot Browning, fatally wounding him.

See also

• 2025 Grand Blanc Township church attack, an attack that happened in Metro Detroit three months afterward.