Communities were left reeling from the attacks, which occurred less than two hours apart and simultaneously Michigan Synagogue and University of VirginiaViolence that officials said would have been much bloodier had residents not intervened.
In Virginia, a former member of the Army National Guard spent years in prison Trying to help On Thursday, ISIS opened fire on a classroom at Old Dominion University, killing one person and wounding two others. Authorities said ROTC cadets subdued and killed him.
In Michigan, a man learned a week ago that four members of his family had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. Shocked in the synagogue Authorities said he then killed himself. None of the 140 children and staff were injured, but a security officer was hit by the car and knocked unconscious.
Here is more information about what happened:
Muhammad Baylor Jalloh shouted “Allahu Akbar” and asked if those in university classrooms were holding an ROTC event before he opened fire, according to authorities and court papers.
Jalloh killed Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, an ROTC commander, and wounded two others, according to officials. FBI officials praised the students’ courage to prevent further harm.
One of the injured has since been released from the hospital, while Sentara Health said the other person is in good condition.
ROTC students receive a scholarship to attend college while training to become commissioned officers in the U.S. Army.
FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media that the campus shooting was being investigated as an act of terrorism.
Jalloh was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone and was a specialist in the Virginia Army National Guard until 2015, when he was honorably discharged.
In 2017, he pleaded guilty to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Islamic State, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. It was He was released early After completing a drug treatment program, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
It was not clear how eligible he would be because prisoners serving sentences for terrorism-related crimes are not typically eligible for such programs or other sentence reduction credits.
Jalloh was transferred from prison to a residential reentry center, or halfway house, in August 2024, and was released from federal custody later that year, according to court records.
He was on probation and taking online classes at the university at the time of the shooting.
Ayman Muhammad Ghazali (41 years old) was waiting outside in his car Temple of Israelnear Detroit, for about two hours with a rifle, commercial fireworks and jugs of liquid believed to be gasoline, before crashing into the building filled with dozens of children.
He began firing his gun through the windshield, exchanging gunfire with an armed security guard. Ghazali shot himself after he got stuck in his car and the engine caught fire, said Jennifer Runyan, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office.
The FBI, which is leading the investigation, called the attack one of the largest in the country Repair of temples as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community, but they said they did not have enough evidence yet to consider it an act of terrorism.
Oakland County Mayor Mike Bouchard credited the preparation and training for the rapid response to the attack.
An official in the town of Mashghara told the Associated Press that Ghazali is a Lebanese-born man who recently discovered that an Israeli airstrike in his homeland killed his two brothers, niece and nephew. They were killed in their home just after sunset while eating breakfast during the holy month of Ramadan.
The official, who requested anonymity because he could not discuss details of the airstrike publicly, said their mother was seriously injured and remains in hospital.
Israel has intensified its attacks on the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, as the war with Iran has spread violence across the Middle East.
Ghazala came to the United States in 2011 on a direct lineage visa as the spouse of a US citizen, and became a US citizen in 2016, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
He lived in a one-story brick house in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights, about 38 miles (61 kilometers) south of the synagogue.