Man in Michigan synagogue attack lost family members in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — An official in Lebanon says a man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in his native country in an Israeli airstrike last week. Officials say 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was killed by security after ramming a vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday (March 12, 2026). The official in eastern Lebanon told The Associated Press that Ghazali’s two brothers and a niece and nephew were killed at their home in the March 5 airstrike. Ghazali was granted U.S. citizenship in 2016.