A Michigan police chief says church staff fatally shot a man armed with a handgun and a long gun, averting a potential mass shooting at a church west of Detroit.

A gunman opened fire during a service at a suburban Detroit church on Sunday, wounding one person before he was shot and killed by a security guard, police said. The shooting happened at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne,

Law enforcement officials are investigating an active shooter incident at a Michigan Church Sunday, with at least one person injured and the suspect dead. "The Wayne Police Department responded to an active shooter at Crosspointe Church in Wayne this morning," the department said in a post on Facebook.