Two Attacks, One Thin Window: ODU Shooting and Detroit-Area Synagogue Attack

Two attacks within hours tested U.S. security: at Virginia’s Old Dominion University, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guard member with ISIS ties, opened fire in a classroom, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah and wounding two others before ROTC students restrained him; one wounded person has been released, the other remains in fair condition, and the FBI is treating the shooting as terrorism. In Michigan, Ayman Ghazali rammed a vehicle into Temple Israel near Detroit, exchanged fire with an armed guard, and killed himself as the vehicle burned; a security officer was knocked unconscious but no children or staff inside were injured. The FBI is leading the synagogue investigation and has described the attack as violent against the Jewish community while noting that it has not yet proven terrorism. Ghazali had learned his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, which investigators say connected to his motive.}