The suspect who crashed a car into Temple Israel, in the state of Michigan, had lost four family members in an Israeli air raid in his home country, Lebanon, last week.
The attack occurred this Thursday, when the man in the suburbs of West Bloomfield in the Detroit area.
O suspect ended up dying in a shootout with temple security, but none of the synagogue staff, teachers or the 140 children at the early childhood education center were injured.
The suspect was later identified by authorities as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali41 years old, born in Lebanon and naturalized American citizen.
According to the citing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources, the man, a resident of the city of Dearborn Heights, He entered the United States in 2011 and became a US citizen five years later, in 2016.
One Israeli air strike killed four people in the city of Mashgharahin eastern Lebanon, on March 5, the Lebanese state agency and the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported. A woman was also injured.
According to the o suspect Ayman Ghazali recently lost several family memberstwo brothers, a nephew and a niece, in an attack in Lebanon.
In a statement, the FBI classified the attack as an “act of violence against the Jewish community” and assumed leadership of the investigation.
Also the President of the United States, Donald Trump reacted to the attack, stating that it is “absolutely unbelievable that things like this happen”.
According to its official website, Temple Israel was founded in 1941 and currently has more than 12,000 members, making it the largest synagogue of Reform Judaism in the United States. The building has an early childhood education center and offers educational programs for families and adults.
