The man, a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, lost family members during an airstrike there last week. The attack on a Michigan synagogue rattled Jewish communities across America.

Days before the antisemitic violence, an imam recalled seeing Ayman Mohamad Ghazali at a service for his relatives who had been killed in the war in Lebanon.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali,41, attacked the synagogue on Thursday at around 12pm just days after his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

The Temple Israel attacker is identified as a Lebanese national, according to reporting by FOX News' s Bill Melugin.

An official in Lebanon says a man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue had lost four family members in his native country in an Israeli airstrike last week.