Here is the face of hate — images of the Michigan shooter who tried to murder toddlers at a Jewish pre-K, law enforcement sources told The Post on Friday, adding that his two brothers were believed to be Hezbollah terrorists.
A 2019 photo obtained by The Post shows Ayman Ghazali, a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon, with a blank stare, closely cropped hair and shaven face.
A second image confirmed by The Post shows him with a full beard.
In 2019, Ghazali was stopped by authorities when he returned to the US from overseas and claimed when questioned that he went abroad for a hair transplant.
Ghazali rammed his car — loaded with mortar shells — into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Thursday but was stopped from carrying out further carnage when security guards opened fire on him, officials said.
No children or staff inside the school were injured, but Ghazali was killed when the vehicle burst into flames.
The attack came after two of his brothers and a niece and nephew were killed in airstrikes in their Lebanon home, a local official in Mashgharah told the Associated Press on Friday.
The two siblings were believed to be members of Iranian-backed Hezbollah, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The relatives were killed just after sunset as they were breaking fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the local official told AP.
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Ghazali, a Dearborn Heights resident, is believed to have first entered the US in 2011 and was granted citizenship by 2016, sources said.
He was questioned by authorities in Atlanta in 2019 after coming back from a trip overseas and had been known to travel to Lebanon, sources said.
He told officials he had gone overseas for the hair transplant, sources said.
But he also had contacts on his phone of known Hezbollah members, sources said.
The FBI followed up on situation, but it’s unclear what the outcome was, sources said.
