Greater Manchester Police tweeted that counter-terrorism officers had made the arrests but did not say whether the pair faced any charges. The investigation stretched to England, where late Sunday police in Manchester announced that two teenagers were in custody in connection with the standoff. Moments later, several shots and then an explosion could be heard.Īuthorities have declined to say who shot Akram, saying it was still under investigation.
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Video of the standoff’s end 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. “While very few of us are doing OK right now, we’ll get through this,” he said. “Thank you for all of the compassion, from the bottom of my heart,” Cytron-Walker said. We were terrified,” Cytron-Walker told “CBS Mornings.”Īt a service held Monday evening at a nearby Methodist church, Cytron-Walker said the amount of “well-wishes and kindness and compassion” has been overwhelming from Colleyville - a city of about 26,000 people, 15 miles (23 kilometers) northeast of Fort Worth - and surrounding communities. “The last hour or so of the standoff, he wasn’t getting what he wanted. The statement followed comments Saturday from the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas field office that the hostage-taker was focused on an issue “not specifically related to the Jewish community.”Īkram could be heard ranting on a Facebook livestream of the services and demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of having ties to al-Qaida who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. The agency noted that Akram spoke repeatedly during negotiations about a prisoner who is serving an 86-year sentence in the U.S. The FBI on Sunday night issued a statement calling the ordeal “a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted” and said the Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating. The first hostage was released shortly after 5 p.m. And all three of us were able to get out without even a shot being fired.”Īuthorities identified the hostage-taker as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, who was killed Saturday night after the last three hostages ran out of the synagogue in Colleyville around 9 p.m. I threw a chair at the gunman, and I headed for the door. “The exit wasn’t too far away,” Cytron-Walker said. Cohen recalled rearing up in his chair and slowly moving his head and mouthing “no.” As the gunman moved to sit back down, Cohen said Cytron-Walker yelled to run. At one point as the situation devolved, Cohen said the gunman told them to get on their knees. They talked to the gunman, and he lectured them. We weren’t released or freed,” said Cohen, who was one of four people in the synagogue for services that many other Congregation Beth Israel members were watching online.Ĭohen said the men worked to keep the gunman engaged.
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