Aafia, her family, or the global campaign to get justice for Dr. “This assailant has nothing to do with Dr. But John Floyd, board chair for the Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, - the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group - said Siddiqui’s brother, Mohammad Siddiqui, was not involved. Multiple people heard the hostage-taker refer to Siddiqui as his “sister” on the livestream. A spokesperson for Meta Platforms Inc., the corporate successor to Facebook Inc., later confirmed that Facebook had removed the video. I don’t want to see this guy dead.” Moments later, the feed cut out. Shortly before 2 p.m., the man said, “You got to do something. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that an angry man could be heard ranting and talking about religion at times during the livestream, which didn’t show what was happening inside the synagogue. Saturday’s services were being livestreamed on the synagogue’s Facebook page for a time. and people were evacuated from the surrounding neighborhood soon after that, FBI Dallas spokeswoman Katie Chaumont said. Police were first called to the synagogue around 11 a.m. He also said he wanted to be able to speak with her, according to the officials, one of whom confirmed that the hostage-taker was a British national.Ī rabbi in New York City received a call from the rabbi believed to be held hostage in the synagogue to demand Siddiqui’s release, a law enforcement official said. Law enforcement officials who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity earlier said the hostage-taker demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of having ties to al-Qaida who is in a federal prison in Texas. It wasn’t clear why Akram chose the synagogue. But DeSarno said the agency’s investigation “will have global reach.” “The attorney general is focused and making sure that we deal with these kinds of acts.”įBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said the hostage-taker was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community, and there was no immediate indication that the man was part of any broader plan. “Rest assured, we are focused,” Biden said during a visit to a food pantry in Philadelphia on Sunday morning.
Moments later, several rounds of gunfire could be heard, followed by the sound of an explosion.
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Video from Dallas TV station WFAA showed people running out a door of the synagogue, and then a man holding a gun opening the same door just seconds later before he turned around and closed it.
The FBI and police spokeswomen declined to answer questions Saturday night about who shot Akram when the standoff ended. COVID hits one of the last uninfected places on the planetĪkram could be heard ranting on a Facebook livestream of the services and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S.Person found shot to death inside Baton Rouge apartment.In a statement, the FBI said there was no indication that anyone else was involved, but it didn’t provide a possible motive. Saturday at Congregation Beth Israel near Fort Worth.
Malik Faisal Akram was shot and killed after the last of the hostages got out at around 9 p.m. AP’s earlier story follows below.ĬOLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) - Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called “an act of terror.” The FBI said there was no indication that anyone else was involved, but it didn’t provide a possible motive. Authorities haven’t said whether Akram was killed by a member of the team. He was killed after the last three hostages ran from the building and an FBI SWAT team stormed it at around 9 p.m. He said in a statement that without that instruction, “we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself.”Īuthorities on Sunday identified the hostage-taker as a 44-year-old British national, Malik Faisal Akram.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Congregation Beth Israel, near Fort Worth, credited security training that his congregation has received over the years for helping him and the other hostages get through the situation. COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) - A rabbi who was among four people held hostage at a Texas synagogue said Sunday that the British man who held them captive became “increasingly belligerent and threatening” toward the end of the 10-hour standoff.
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