Police on Friday identified the two men who were killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in northwest England on the holiest day of the Jewish year—and they said one of them was apparently killed by police fire. Greater Manchester Police said local residents Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, died in the attack on the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in the Manchester suburb of Crumpsall, the AP reports. Three other people are hospitalized in serious condition.
- Police chief Stephen Watson said a forensic examination has provisionally determined that one of those killed had a gunshot wound. He said the attacker did not have a gun and since police were the only ones who fired shots at the scene, "this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence" of police actions, the AP reports. Watson said one of the injured people was also shot. "It is believed that both victims were close together behind the synagogue door, as worshippers acted bravely to prevent the attacker from gaining entry," he said.
- The attacker was identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent who entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in 2006. Authorities are unsure whether that is his birth name, since Al-Shamie translates into English as "the Syrian."