January 16, 2022, 01:04pm.
The FBI Dallas Field Office said on Sunday that the armed man who took four people hostage, including a rabbi, was a British national.
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Matthew DeSarno, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Dallas Field Office, said there was no indication that other people were involved in the hostage situation.
The hostages were freed and the police officer who was killed was not identified.
Additional FBI teams are still gathering evidence at the scene and the investigation is still ongoing.
The standoff with police began after Akram took four people hostage during services at the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, about 15 miles north of Fort Worth. The hostage taker died after an 11-hour standoff with police, but he did not say how he died. According to reports, Akram said he took the people hostage to demand the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist serving an 86-year sentence for the attempted murder of U.S. soldiers. A person named Siddiqui is in a prison near Fort Worth, Texas.
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McCaul, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an interview that the FBI investigation into the hostage taker has spread to London and Tel Aviv. The call for Siddiqui's freedom has become a cause for terrorists around the world. McCaul said he thought the suspect chose the synagogue due to its proximity to the prison facility where she is being held. McCaul said that there was something more to it, as he said, in the jihadist world. McCaul believes that more information about the hostage situation will come to light in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Hostages were taken at a Texas Synagogue.
Texas officials say all hostages are safe, out of the Colleyville synagogue.
The Beth-Israel rabbi in Colleyville expressed his appreciation hours after the rescue.
The federal prisoner at the center of the Texas hostage incident is Aafia Siddiqui. NBC News
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