Michigan synagogue attack: suspect’s Lebanon tragedy linked by source to family losses
A Lebanese-born U.S. citizen, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, died after driving a vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, in what authorities describe as a targeted act against the Jewish community; DHS identifies Ghazali and says he became a U.S. citizen in 2016 after arriving in 2011. A Lebanese American source says Ghazali’s family was killed in a Lebanon airstrike about 10 days earlier, a claim not independently confirmed by authorities. The FBI is leading the investigation; officials noted injuries to security personnel and the area being secured, with no confirmed motive yet.