Michigan Synagogue Attack
The exterior the home of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali is shown in Friday, March 13, 2026, in Dearborn Heights, Mich.
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A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building. Authorities say 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali crashed into Temple Israel Thursday, got his vehicle stuck in a hallway and started firing his gun through the windshield. The FBI says he fatally shot himself. Ghazali was granted U.S. citizenship in 2016. An official in Lebanon told The Associated Press that an Israeli airstrike killed Ghazali’s two brothers and a niece and nephew at their home on March 5.
