politics
March 13, 2026
Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack had lost family in Israeli strike on Lebanon
Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon and became a naturalized US citizen, lost two brothers, a niece and a nephew in the airstrike
TL;DR
- An armed suspect, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, drove a vehicle into a Michigan synagogue complex on Thursday.
- Security guards at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township killed the driver before any harm came to staff or 140 children at the early childhood center.
- Ghazali, a naturalized US citizen born in Lebanon, had lost four family members (two brothers, a niece, and a nephew) in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on March 5.
- The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.
- One security officer was injured, and law enforcement officers were treated for smoke inhalation.
- A separate incident at Old Dominion University involved a gunman who killed one person and injured two; the suspect was identified as Mohamed Jalloh and is being investigated as an alleged act of terrorism.
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