DETROIT — The man who rammed a truck into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township and started shooting appears to have acted alone, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday evening.

Police had been actively searching for a possible second suspect linked to the attack on Temple Israel. At Shenandoah Country Club, located just across Walnut Lake Road from the synagogue, they scoured the golf course. Meanwhile, helicopters swirled above.

Appearing on CNN, Nessel said police were investigating whether the attacker had any accomplices “to make sure there wasn’t anyone else involved.”

“It doesn’t appear that way at this point," Nessel said of the possibility of an accomplice. "It does look like, right now, that just the individual who died inside the synagogue is the person responsible.”

With a heavy police presence near the temple, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said Thursday afternoon that authorities were trying to get access to video of the incident. West Bloomfield police got a 911 call about an active shooter situation at 12:19 p.m., West Bloomfield Police Chief Dale Young said Thursday evening.

Shots were fired at the synagogue after a vehicle rammed into the building's front door, and security guards engaged the threat. The situation prompted nearby schools to shelter in place and emergency officials to warn residents to avoid the area.

The man who attacked the Jewish synagogue was killed, according to the FBI.

In a letter to members of its congregation, Temple Israel described the attacker as a "terrorist gunman who was confronted and neutralized by our security personnel who are truly heroes."

"We're looking to see if there was more than one person," Bouchard told reporters. "We're still trying to figure that out."

Nessel links Temple Israel attack to war in Iran, its name

Nessel, the state's highest-ranking Jewish official, grew up in West Bloomfield Township and said she has family that attends Temple Israel.

During the CNN interview, Nessel linked the attack on the synagogue to the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign in Iran, a majority-Muslim country run by theocratic clerics.

President Donald Trump's 13-day-old war led to the killing of Iran's longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and retaliatory attacks by Iran throughout the Middle East.

"We can absolutely draw a nexus between the war in Iran and the events of today," Nessel said. "I don't think it's a coincidence that out of all of the synagogues or temples that this individual could have picked, he picked the one that is named Temple Israel."

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