Holding her dying father, who had just been shot inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lisa Louis looked directly into the shooter’s face, according to a letter posted to Facebook by her sister on Sept. 29.

Moments before, 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford allegedly crashed his pickup truck into the Grand Blanc Township Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, opened fire, and set the church ablaze.

Ten people were shot, two fatally, and two more bodies were later found in the rubble.

“I saw into his soul, and he saw into mine. He let me live,” Louis wrote. “I never took my eyes off his eyes. Something happened. I saw pain, he felt lost, I deeply felt it with every fiber of my being.”

“I forgave him right there, not in words, but with my heart,” she wrote.

Louis’s sister, Julie Green, who posted the letter online, expressed the same sentiment.

“I prayed for the man that took my father’s life and I told him he is forgiven,” Green wrote. ”I always wondered how people were able to forgive the person that caused harm to another human that they loved but I can tell you first hand it actually is very easy.”

The daughters’ gestures were made a week after Erika Kirk’s message of forgiveness after her husband, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, was assassinated on a college campus in Utah.

Within minutes of arriving at the scene, officers shot and killed Sanford, a former U.S. Marine who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004 to 2008, according to records provided by the U.S. Marine Corps.

Authorities have not publicly disclosed a motive for the shooting.

Police have not publicly revealed the names of the victims from the church shooting and fire; however, several fundraisers have been launched by apparent friends and family members of the victims.

“I am beyond words at the generosity and kindness you have shown our family. The money raised will support mom (what I affectionately call my mother-in-law) for many years. We are so grateful that this burden has been lifted for her, so that she can mourn her husband’s passing without that weight on her mind,” Hayden wrote on the fundraising website.

“Our community has wrapped its arms around us and shown us so much love and support. We feel the thoughts and the prayers, and we are so amazed at the blessings that have been bestowed upon us. Christ has shown us He is here, He is with us and He is truly carrying us through this difficult time.”

Hayden said that funds raised through the GoFundMe page will help her mother-in-law with long-term expenses.

Pat Howard, 77, was also killed, according to a family friend who told The Associated Press that Howard attended the service with his wife, Kitty, who was not wounded during the attack.

In a Facebook post, his niece, Maureen Seliger, said her uncle was “smart, kind, funny, serious, curious, and loved his family.”

“In my mind I see him mid conversation, his eyebrows raised, his eyes bright and a smile just starting to show,” Seliger wrote.

“If you are lucky enough to know the Howards, you know the kindness, love, and support they give to everyone they come in contact with,” Lyman wrote.

“It is the most significant time in my life where I have felt the love and prayer of other people,” Schaub said.

With a tremor in his voice, he added, “It was very humbling to see how much good there is in the world today and that, above all, we are all children of the same father in heaven.”