Here is the face of hate — images of the Michigan shooter who tried to murder toddlers at a Jewish preschool, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Friday, along with details about his ties to Hezbollah.
A 2019 photo obtained by The Post shows Ayman Ghazali, a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon, with a blank stare and shaven face.
A second image shows him with a full beard.
In 2019, Ghazali was stopped by authorities when he returned to the US from overseas and claimed he went abroad for a hair transplant.
On Thursday, Ghazali rammed his car — loaded with mortar shells — into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield but was stopped when security guards opened fire, officials said.
No children or staff inside the school were injured, but Ghazali was killed when the vehicle then burst into flames.
The Dearborn Heights resident is believed to have first entered the US in 2011 and was granted citizenship by 2016, sources said.
He then 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.
