Police issued a shelter-in-place order for buildings within a mile of the synagogue.
What we know about the suspect
Baydoun announced late Thursday that the suspect was a resident of Dearborn Heights.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that Ghazali came from Lebanon to the U.S. through Detroit on May 10, 2011, as the spouse of a U.S. citizen using an IR1 immigrant visa after “alien relative and fiancé petitions filed in December 2009 were approved in April 2010.”
After applying for naturalization in October 2015, he was granted citizenship in February 2016, according to DHS.
Originally from Mashghara, a town in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, Ghazali lost two of his brothers, a niece, and a nephew during Israeli airstrikes on the town last week, a Lebanese official told NBC News. His late brothers were understood to be members of Hezbollah, a militant group backed by Iran, the official said, though it is not known whether they were targeted in the strike.
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