Overview

• Greater Manchester Police say one of the two deceased worshippers appears to have been shot by armed officers during the response, with a second casualty also wounded by police gunfire, and the IOPC has opened a standard investigation.
• Reports indicate attacker Jihad Al‑Shamie, 35, was on police bail for an alleged rape and had prior non‑terror convictions, though he was not previously on the radar of counter‑terrorism authorities.
• Police arrested two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s on suspicion of terrorism offenses as inquiries continue into motive, associates and any prior threats.
• The attacker’s father, Faraj Al‑Shamie, posted a family statement condemning the “heinous act,” while separate reporting highlights his earlier Facebook praise for Hamas, which investigators are reviewing alongside a 2012 death‑threat email to an MP purportedly from a “Jihad Alshamie.”
• The Yom Kippur assault involved a car‑ramming and stabbings outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation; the suspect, who wore a fake explosives belt, was shot dead within minutes, and victims Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were named as those killed.