Synagogue and School Public Safety

A 911 caller who identified herself as the attacker’s ex‑wife told Dearborn Heights police shortly before the March 12 rampage that Ayman Mohamad Ghazali — who had recently lost close relatives in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon — was “not stable” and “suicidal.” Ghazali then drove a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, where on‑site security exchanged gunfire as the vehicle caught fire; investigators say he later died of a self‑inflicted gunshot, about 140 children and staff were evacuated unharmed, and the FBI is leading a probe treating the incident as targeted violence against the Jewish community while examining explosives and commercial‑grade fireworks found in the vehicle.