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‘Message of the Cross’ Brings Michigan Man to Comfort Community Mourning Church Shooting

Dan Beazley travels around the country with his cedar cross to places that have experienced catastrophic events.
‘Message of the Cross’ Brings Michigan Man to Comfort Community Mourning Church Shooting
Dan Beazley prays with Ed Chandler, a Michigan pastor, at a Sept. 30 vigil in Grand Blanc, Mich., for victims of the shooting at a chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc. Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times
Jeff Louderback
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GRAND BLANC, Michigan—On the edge of a police barricade near the church where four people were killed in a shooting and fire in Grand Blanc on Sept. 28, Dan Beazley stands for hours holding a 10-foot wooden cross near a makeshift memorial of flowers.

A real estate broker from Northville, around an hour’s drive from Grand Blanc, Beazley takes the cross around the country to locations that have just experienced a catastrophic event.

Jeff Louderback
Jeff Louderback
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Jeff Louderback covers major news and politics, including the Make America Healthy Again movement and regenerative farming. Since joining The Epoch Times in 2022, he has covered national elections, the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign, the East Palestine train derailment, and the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. Jeff has 30-plus years of professional experience as a reporter, editor, and author.