UK Synagogue Attacker Pledged Allegiance to ISIS During Emergency Call: Police

Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said he is confident Syrian-born Jihad Al-Shamie was ‘influenced by extreme Islamist ideology.’
UK Synagogue Attacker Pledged Allegiance to ISIS During Emergency Call: Police
Police presence at the funeral of Adrian Daulby at Agecroft Jewish Cemetery in Salford, England, on Oct. 6, 2025. Peter Powell/PA Wire
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Police say a Syrian-born attacker who rammed a car into a group of Jewish people and then stabbed several men outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Oct. 2, made a call to the emergency services in which he pledged allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group.
Two men, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, died in the attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, although Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said on Oct. 3 that one of the men “would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury” and that “this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence” of shots fired by armed police who had rushed to the scene and eventually shot the alleged attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, dead.
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