Michigan synagogue attacker seen on video buying $2k in fireworks

Ayman Ghazali made the purchase at Phantom Fireworks in Michigan in the early afternoon on March 10, a company executive told the Detroit Free Press.

The man accused of ramming a truck into a Michigan synagogue spent more than $2,000 at a local fireworks shop two days earlier, picking up products called “da bomb” and “military demolition,” a company executive told the Detroit Free Press.

Ayman Ghazali made the purchase at Phantom Fireworks in Livonia, Michigan, in the early afternoon on March 10, spending 45 minutes in the store before loading the items onto a dark gray pickup truck and leaving, said the Ohio-based chain’s executive vice president, Alan Zoldan.

On March 12, the 41-year-old resident of Dearborn Heights drove a pickup truck into Temple Israel, a Bloomfield Township synagogue with preschool in session. The attack wounded a security guard before Ghazali fatally shot himself, federal investigators said. The truck's engine compartment caught fire and started the blaze at the synagogue.

FBI officials said Friday that Ghazali had a large amount of commercial fireworks and gasoline in the back of his truck. NBC News first reported Ghazali's bulk fireworks purchase.

Ghazali’s pricey, off-season purchase at first did not seem out of the ordinary to a store employee.