Suspicious terror jihad Al-Shamia identified in the deadly attack on the Manchester synagogue

The suspect behind the fatal attack by car and knife terrorist outside a synagogue in Manchester in the United Kingdom was identified by police as being Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian origin.

The police said that Al-Shamia had entered the United Kingdom as a young child and had become a citizen in 2006. He did not have a previous criminal record. Al-Shamia translates into English by “the Syrian” and the authorities do not know if it is his birth name.

London metropolitan police said a terrorist attack. He came to Yom Kippour, the healthiest day of the Jewish calendar, while large crowds of faithful gathered at the synagogue of the Hebrew Congregation of Heaton Park, an Orthodox synagogue.

The exact reason for the attacker is still surveyed by the police.

Emergency services escort people to security after a terrorist car and knife attack outside the Heaton Park Congregation of the Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, England on Thursday, October 2, 2025. The police said that two people had been killed, and four other injured before armed police shoot. (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

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The neighbors of the striker in the suburbs of Manchester in Prestwich, a few kilometers from the synagogue, said that the Al-Shamia family has been living in a house for years. Several have described by seeing Al-Shamia raise weights and work in the backyard.

Geoff Halliwell, who lives nearby, told the Associated Press that he seemed to be “an ordinary and simple boy”.

Al-Shamia is accused of hitting a car in pedestrians outside the synagogue around 9:30 am local time, then attacking them with a knife. He wore what seemed to be a belt of explosives, which turned out to be false.

Armed police said a major incident and opened fire a few minutes later, killing the suspect.

Two people died and four others were injured during the incident.

Two women tighten closely, one that cries, near the attack scene of the Manchester synagogue. (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

In an update, the police said that Al-Shamia was not armed and that one of the deceased victims had probably shot the police shots during the answer. A hospitalized victim also suffered a shot injury, police said.

The dead victims were appointed Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, both from Crumpsall.

Police arrested three people suspected of preparation or commission of terrorism acts on Thursday. They are two men in the thirties and a woman in the sixties.

A video on social networks has shown that the police with firearms pointed out on a person lying on the tarmac under a blue star of David on the brick building.

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A passer -by could be heard on the video saying that the man had a bomb and was trying to press a button. When the man tried to get up, a gunshot sounds and he fell on the ground, collapsed on his back and then rolled on his side.

In a television address, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the assault as a “vile terrorist attack that attacked the Jews because they are Jews”.

“Anti-Semitism is a hatred that rises, once again. Great Britain must defeat it, once again,” said Starmer. “To each Jewish person in this country: I promise that I will do everything in my power to guarantee you the security you deserve.

The card shows the synagogue of the Heabraic Congregation of Heaton Park in Manchester, England, where the police said that two people were killed and that three others injured in a car and knife attack on Thursday, October 2, 2025. Armed police officers shot the suspect. (Fox News)

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Anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom soaked after the continuation of October 7, 2023 of Hamas against Israel and Israel, which followed the military campaign in Gaza, according to Community Security Trust, a group for the defense of British Jews who strives to eliminate anti-Semitism.

More than 1,500 incidents were reported in the first half, reported the second higher since the record established a year earlier.

Simon Owen of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this story.