Armed FBI agents carry out search warrant believed to be in connection to synagogue attacker

Armed FBI agents executed a hunt warrant astatine a location successful Michigan overnight Thursday, believed to beryllium successful transportation with the synagogue attacker who rammed a conveyance into a Jewish location of worship earlier successful the day.

Video shows agents extracurricular a ceramic location successful Dearborn Heights, a metropolis successful Wayne County, utilizing a agelong battering instrumentality to interruption a beforehand model earlier making entry. Law enforcement told WJBK/FOX 2 Detroit they were conducting a hunt warrant.

The raid came hours aft a fishy rammed a conveyance into Temple Israel, a ample Reform synagogue successful West Bloomfield, astir 12:20 p.m. section time.

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Armed FBI agents are seen extracurricular a location successful Dearborn Heights, Michigan, precocious Thursday into aboriginal Friday, appearing to breach a beforehand model portion executing a hunt warrant believed to beryllium connected to the Temple Israel synagogue attacker. (WJBK/FOX 2 Detroit)

The suspect, identified arsenic Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, allegedly rammed the synagogue and opened occurrence astatine information guards with a rifle, authorities said. Armed information returned occurrence and changeable him dead.

During the incident, the conveyance caught fire, filling the gathering with smoke. All unit and 140 students were evacuated, FOX 2 Detroit reported. It remains unclear what ignited the flames.

FOX 2 Detroit reported that a chemic cause was recovered wrong the truck, indicating a imaginable explosive device. Authorities person not identified the substance.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt confirmed President Donald Trump had been briefed connected the shooting, portion FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi said FBI unit and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting successful the investigation.

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Armed FBI agents are seen extracurricular a location successful Dearborn Heights, Michigan, precocious Thursday into aboriginal Friday, appearing to breach a beforehand model portion executing a hunt warrant believed to beryllium connected to the Temple Israel synagogue attacker. (WJBK/FOX 2 Detroit)

Henry Ford Health said astatine slightest 8 archetypal responders were treated astatine the hospital.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said 1 information defender was struck by the suspect’s truck. In a aboriginal update, helium said astir 30 officers were taken to the infirmary for fume inhalation aft entering the building.

The politician of Dearborn Heights said successful a societal media connection that the fishy reportedly mislaid respective household members successful an Israeli onslaught connected their location successful Lebanon.

"Earlier today, we learned that the idiosyncratic liable for the incidental that took spot astatine Temple Israel Synagogue successful West Bloomfield was a nonmigratory of Dearborn Heights. He died astatine the scene," Mayor Mo Baydoun said.

"Earlier this month, helium mislaid respective members of his ain family, including his niece and nephew, successful an Israeli onslaught connected their location successful Lebanon."

An aerial presumption of the country of the onslaught astatine the Temple Israel, a synagogue successful Michigan, connected Thursday, March 12, 2026. (WJBK)

Baydoun condemned the onslaught and urged residents to stay vigilant, "especially arsenic we stitchery during these ineffable last days of Ramadan."

Multiple instrumentality enforcement sources and national authorities said the fishy entered the United States arsenic the spouse of a U.S. national astir 15 years agone during the Obama medication and was granted citizenship successful 2016.

Ghazali, calved successful Lebanon connected Jan. 4, 1985, entered the U.S. done Detroit Metropolitan International Airport connected May 10, 2011, connected an IR1 migrant visa, according to DHS.

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He aboriginal applied for naturalization successful October 2015 and was granted U.S. citizenship connected Feb. 5, 2016.

Local media outlet The Detroit News reported that Ghazali worked successful Dearborn Heights.