{"id":16852,"date":"2026-03-13T00:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/16852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:07:06","slug":"temple-israel-says-everyone-is-safe-after-armed-attacker-rammed-facility-police-confirm-the-suspect-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/16852\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Israel says &#8216;everyone is safe&#8217; after armed attacker rammed facility; police confirm the suspect is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An attacker armed with a rifle rammed his vehicle into a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Thursday before being killed by the temple\u2019s security staff, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">None of the people inside Temple Israel, including 140 children who were at the synagogue\u2019s on-site child care center, were seriously injured or killed in the incident. \u201cEveryone is safe,\u201d the synagogue wrote <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/templeisraelmi\/posts\/pfbid0368Ee9FVmjfKdJxuYvgwucAyfZpppV3KKht3ty3jWzsRosge9K4TW4o6kPMrcTuUQl?ref=embed_post\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in a social media post;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;in a social media post&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">in a social media post<\/a> several hours after the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities say they have not identified the suspect\u2019s motive, but the FBI is leading its investigation as a \u201ctargeted act of violence against the Jewish community,\u201d Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI\u2019s Detroit field office, said during a press conference on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect\u2019s car caught fire inside the building, causing a blaze that resulted in 30 first responders being hospitalized with smoke inhalation. A member of the temple\u2019s security staff, who was knocked to the ground by the suspect\u2019s vehicle, was also taken to the hospital with what are believed to be non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovWhitmer\/status\/2032148753818202118\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released a statement;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;released a statement&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">released a statement<\/a> expressing her concern for those involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is heartbreaking. Michigan\u2019s Jewish community should be able to live and practice their faith in peace,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAntisemitism and violence have no place in Michigan. I am hoping for everyone\u2019s safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Synagogues in the Detroit area were placed on temporary lockdown. Police in New York City and Washington, D.C., increased their patrols around Jewish cultural institutions out of an abundance of caution in the hours after the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Our live coverage has ended.<\/p>\n<p>Live14 updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An attacker armed with a rifle rammed his vehicle into a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,8783,4498,8782,8781,8780,8537],"class_list":{"0":"post-16852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-jennifer-runyan","10":"tag-jewish-community","11":"tag-security-staff","12":"tag-synagogue","13":"tag-temple-israel","14":"tag-west-bloomfield"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116218956557146119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}