What we know about the car ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue

The FBI is investigating a car ramming attack on a large Detroit-area synagogue Thursday as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community,” the special agent in charge for the region said.

The Department of Homeland Security said the driver was Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old U.S. citizen originally from Lebanon. Ghazali lost several family members in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon last week, according to a local Lebanese official and a mayor in Michigan.

Numerous federal and state law enforcement officials said that while they believe Ghazali is the alleged attacker, they are awaiting forensics to confirm the identity because the driver’s body is so badly burned.

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