Authorities have identified the man who drove a vehicle into a large synagogue near Detroit as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41‑year‑old naturalized US citizen born in Lebanon. The incident occurred on Thursday at Temple Israel, one of the nation’s largest Reform Jewish congregations, and was being investigated by the FBI as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.
A Lebanese official told The Associated Press that Ghazali recently lost four family members, his two brothers, a niece and a nephew, in an Israeli airstrike in Mashgharah, Lebanon, during the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The official said the relatives were killed at their home while breaking their fast during Ramadan.
