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
Multiple media outlets identified the suspect as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a Lebanese-born U.S. citizen. The Associated Press reported<\/a> that Ghazali had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week.<\/p>\n Authorities have not publicly identified the suspect\u2019s motive, but the FBI is investigating the incident 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 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 in a social media post<\/a> several hours after the attack.<\/p>\n 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