#BREAKING: Greater Manchester Police said in a statement today that two teenagers had been arrested in relation to the hostage situation that took place at a Colleyville synagogue yesterday. https://t.co/6RjX8HlXKR
In the last hour of the hostage taking the rabbi said the gunman wasn't getting what he wanted and the hostages grew terrified. He decided to take action. "I threw a chair at the gunman and I headed for the door,” Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker told CBS
NEW: The FBI has identified the hostage taker as Malik Faisal Akram, 44, a British citizen.
Akram is dead after an FBI team moved into to rescue hostages held at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, TX last night.
WATCH: Hostages escape the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, in dramatic fashion -- just as the FBI breaches the building, ending a nearly 12-hour standoff.
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The four hostages are unharmed.
The hostage-taking is not part of an ongoing threat, @FBIDallas said. Negotiators were in near-constant communication with the hostage taker before “deliberate decision” to breach the synagogue
Colleyville PD confirms SWAT situation is over and all hostages are safe.
News conference set for 10:15 p.m. It'll be our first chance to hear from law enforcement on camera.
#Breaking Confirming the explosion and gunshots at #ColleyvilleSynagogue were an offensive move to rescue the hostages. All three hostages are safe. Law enforcement sources say hostage taker shot, condition as yet not clear. @CBSDFW
BREAKING: An explosion followed by a short round of rapid gunfire was just heard coming from the #BethIsrael Synagogue in #Colleyville. This is developing... #ColleyvilleSynagogue
Among the hostages inside Temple Beth Israel in Colleyville, Rabbi Charlie Cryton Walker. He’s spoken on numerous occasions on @CBSDFW, and to my own family, about the very type of hate and violence that has now shown up inside his own synagogue… hostage negotiations continue.