Law enforcement authorities in suburban Detroit say they're still searching for a motive behind yesterday's attack on a synagogue and school.

FBI officials said tonight the suspect had large quantities of commercial-grade fireworks and several jugs of flammable liquid believed to be gasoline in the truck he drove into the building.

They also said he had no prior criminal history

and that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The FBI called it, quote,

a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community, and it's touched off a wider

conversation around anti-Semitism in the U.S. A day after a man rammed his vehicle into a Michigan synagogue, the state's governor was clear.

Yesterday's attack was anti-Semitism.

It was hate, plain and simple.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer with a message of support to the Jewish community in her state and nationwide.

We must lower the rhetoric in this state and in this country, especially at this moment where we have seen such a rise in anti-Semitism

and more attacks on the Jewish community.

Officials have not yet identified a motive,

but new details have emerged about the attacker.

41-year-old Eamon Mohammad Ghazali was born in Lebanon.

He came to the U.S. in 2011 on an immediate relative visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen.

He became a U.S. citizen himself in 2016.

The Associated Press reports that an Israeli air strike in eastern Lebanon

last week killed his two brothers, his niece, and his nephew. Yesterday, armed with a rifle and

explosives in the trunk, he drove his truck into the Temple Israel Synagogue and preschool.

None of the staff, teachers, or over a hundred children inside were

injured. One security officer was knocked unconscious by the car. Dozens more were treated for

smoke inhalation. Allison Jacobs sends her 18-month-old daughter to the temple's daycare.

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