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WEST BLOOM­FIELD, Mich. (AP) — A man armed with a ri­fle rammed his ve­hi­cle in­to one of the na­tion’s largest re­form syn­a­gogues in a De­troit sub­urb and was fa­tal­ly shot by se­cu­ri­ty Thurs­day, The As­so­ci­at­ed Press has learned.

The ve­hi­cle caught fire af­ter crash­ing in­to Tem­ple Is­rael in West Bloom­field Town­ship, ac­cord­ing to a per­son fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter who spoke to The AP.

The at­tack­er drove through a set of doors and in­to a hall­way where some­thing in the ve­hi­cle ig­nit­ed, a sher­iff said.