Michigan synagogue car-ramming suspect bought $2,000 worth of fireworks before attack

Two days before federal authorities say Ayman Mohamad Ghazali carried out Thursday's antisemitic terror attack at a synagogue outside Detroit, the driver in the car-ramming allegedly walked out of a fireworks store with more than $2,000 worth of explosives

Two days before federal authorities say Ayman Mohamad Ghazali carried out Thursday's antisemitic terror attack at a synagogue outside Detroit, the driver in the car-ramming allegedly walked out of a fireworks store with more than $2,000 worth of explosives.

Speaking exclusively with NBC News, Phantom Fireworks said that a person who registered as Ayman Ghazali visited one of the company’s Detroit-area stores at 1:39 p.m. March 10 and spent about 45 minutes inside.

Days later, Ghazali allegedly rammed a pickup into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, setting off a fire at the synagogue where a preschool attended by more than 100 children was in session, officials said. None of the children or staff members were injured.

Ghazali, a Dearborn Heights, Michigan, resident, was found dead after the attack.

The FBI on Friday said that Ghazali was "forensically confirmed" as the assailant. Prior, officials said they believed he was the synagogue attacker, but were awaiting forensics as the driver's body was badly burned.