According to MLive,<\/a> police responded to the scene after receiving multiple reports that a vehicle crashed into the building and shots were fired after the collision. Bouchard said the suspect down a hall before being engaged.<\/p>\n\u201cSecurity did engage the suspect with gunfire,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cThere were multiple security officers on scene. And the one that was hurt was pulled from that area by his team.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard at the scene Thursday, along side West Bloomfield Police Chief Dale Young. (Peg McNichol \/ MediaNews Group)<\/p>\n
\u201cHe breached the building and drove down the hall, and he was engaged by security. He drove in through doors in that vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about the fire in the car, the sheriff said: \u201cSomething ignited in the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next for law enforcement is to check for explosives with the investigators and bomb-sniffing dogs on the scene. Resources have been deployed across the county as a precaution, the sheriff said, though they had no information of other sites being targeted.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one was hurt and we\u2019re on top of it,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cEverything that was supposed to happen happened. Security did their job. The responders did their\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sheriff said the investigators will work to determine the motive of this attack, declining to speculate at this early stage.<\/p>\n
This is the latest, and in this case potential, mass casualty attack in Michigan in the past five years,<\/p>\n
It was in Oakland County\u2019s northeast community that four Oxford High School students were slain in November of 2021 in a school shooting that highlighted a 14-year-old with access to a new gun and accusations that his parents ignored mental health concerns. In that case, the shooter pleaded guilty and his parents were eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter, the nation\u2019s first such case.<\/p>\n
It was in February of 2023 that a 43-year-old man shot eight people on the campus of Michigan State University, killing three and injuring five others. One of the victims was from Oakland County\u2019s Berkley community. The shooter eventually killed himself when police tracked him down and confronted him.<\/p>\n
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Part of the massive local, county and federal police response to the scene of a reported active shooter at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Thursday. (Peg McNichol \/ MediaNews Group)<\/p>\n
It was in June of 2024, the day before Father\u2019s Day, that a 42-year-old Macomb County man opened fire at the Brookland Plaze splash pad in Rochester Hills, injuring two children and seven adults. That shooter killed himself inside the Shelby Township home he shared with his mother during a standoff with police. His mother was out of town at the time.<\/p>\n
And in September of 2025, involving another church, a 40-year-old man drove his pickup truck through the doors of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, opening fire with an assault rifle and setting fire to the church. Four were killed and eight injured in the shooting and fire, which destroyed the church. The shooter was killed by police in a shootout a short while after the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment, we\u2019re just telling people to shelter in place for at least a mile away from area so that we can tell that there was nobody else on foot,\u201d Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said via an NBC interview early into the response. \u2018Reunification will be at the JCC, the Jewish Community Center, where parents can go to pick up their kids. It\u2019ll be secured by law enforcement. So no fear there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He asked people to not come to the area.<\/p>\n
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This emergency alert was sent out over cable channels at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. (Stephen Frye \/ MediaNews Group)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a work in progress,\u201d Bouchard said as emergency responders searched the building and area, noting it\u2019s a large facility with a large parcel of property. \u201cIt\u2019s active and busy and we\u2019re still trying to figure it out. Everybody has been moved out of the school.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bouchard did say a vehicle was involved and temple security \u201cengaged the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n
FBI Director Kash Patel said agents are on scene of an \u201capparent vehicle ramming and active shooter situation\u201d at the synagogue.<\/p>\n
The Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s office said authorities are clearing the building. About a dozen parents sprinted to get their children from an early childhood learning center inside the building after getting approval from police. West Bloomfield School District went on lockdown.<\/p>\n
Temple Israel calls itself the nation\u2019s largest Reform synagogue, with 12,000 members. according to its website. It has an early childhood education center and offers educational programs for families and adults.<\/p>\n
The website says the synagogue is \u201cpassionate about helping Jewish communities across the globe\u201d and that its mission is to \u201ccreate a community building through the lens of Reform Judaism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Authorities also confirmed officers were being sent to other nearby places of worship out of an abundance of caution.<\/p>\n
The synagogue is located at 5725 Walnut Lake Road.<\/p>\n
The Jewish Federation of Detroit has issued a community notification, advising \u201call Jewish organizations to go into lockout protocol\u201d \u2014 to not allow anyone to enter or exit their buildings.<\/p>\n
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People gather near Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo\/Corey Williams)<\/p>\n