About an hour ago, we heard reports of an active shooter near Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard confirmed the suspect is dead.
Thankfully, no kids or staff were harmed.
Bill Melugin shared a statement from DHS about the shooter, identifying him as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali:
BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the Michigan synagogue attacker has been ID’d as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a Lebanese national who first entered the U.S. in 2011 on an IR1 immigrant visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen. He was naturalized into a U.S. citizen in 2016 during the Obama administration.
Bouchard couldn’t give too many details, including how the suspect died, but said “security did engage the suspect with gunfire.”
The suspect rammed his vehicle through the doors of Temple Israel and drove down the hall.
“It’s hard to say how fast [the suspect was traveling],” Bouchard said. “I mean, he was traveling with purpose down the hall from my look at the video.”
The car also caught on fire:
“Something ignited in the vehicle. That’s a work in progress. We’re — through an abundance of caution — clearing the vehicle for IEDs or any explosives. We’ve got a significant number of bomb dogs on site, bomb techs on site, and all of that’s going to be done to check the boxes. We have deployed resources all across the county, just in case, out of an abundance of caution that there may be a secondary site, but we don’t have any information at this time to believe that, so we want people to take a breath. No one was hurt. We’re on top of it. Chief and his team got here fast. Everything that was supposed to happen happened. Security did their job, and then the responders did theirs.”“[The call] came out as an active shooter.”“The vehicle’s in the hallway of the building. It’s inside the building.”“Again, I can’t tell you what he died of until we get a little further. We haven’t actually gone into the car. It’s a — it’s still being cleared.”
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