No one else died during the attack on the synagogue where children were attending preschool.<\/p>\n
Ghazali consumed pro-Hezbollah ideology prior to the attack, said Runyan, but the FBI has not been able to verify if he was a member of Hezbollah. There is no evidence that he had co-conspirators, Runyan said.<\/p>\n
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was founded by Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 1982. Both Hezbollah and the IRGC are designated as foreign terrorist organisations by the US The US and Israel\u00a0launched a war against Iran on 28 February<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Had this man lived, I am convinced that my office would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed the federal crime of providing material support to Hezbollah,” said Jerome Borgen, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.<\/p>\n Tire tracks on the lawn where law enforcement breached the Dearborn Heights, Michigan home of Ayman Ghazali, on 13 March, 2026.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0AFP\/ Jeff Kowalsky<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Runyan said the day before the synagogue attack Ghazali started sharing photos on social media of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was\u00a0killed in US-Israeli strikes<\/a>\u00a0last month. Then, on the day of the attack, while sitting in the parking lot of the Temple of Israel, Ghazali told his sister in a message that he planned “to commit a mass terrorist attack”.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n