Suspect killed after ramming vehicle into Michigan synagogue

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said a vehicle drove into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield shortly after 12:30 p.m., breaching the entrance before security personnel engaged the suspect with gunfire.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the attack was carried out by Ayman Mohamad Ghazali. Ghazali, 41, was born in Lebanon, entered the US in 2011 and was granted citizenship in 2016, according to DHS.

Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office, described it as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.”