Obtained by ABC News(COLLEYVILLE, Texas) The man who allegedly held people hostage at a Texas synagogue on Saturday may not have appeared on any American
U.S. and U.K. authorities have been slow to confirm details on the timeline of when British suspect Malik Faisal Akram, accused of taking Jewish worshippers hostage at a Texas synagogue, entered the country undetected.
All hostages were released safely from a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas (about 30 miles northwest of Dallas) following a 10+ hour standoff. According to local and federal law enforcement officials, the man responsible is dead. The group of four hostages, which included the rabbi of the synagogue, were taken hostage at about 10:41 a.m. Saturday at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue. The hostages were being held by a man demanding the release of a federal prisoner being held in North Texas who was convicted in 2010 of attempted murder in a terrorism-related case, officials said. One of the hostages was released shortly after 5 p.m. and FBI crisis negotiators continued to communicate with the man in the synagogue Saturday night. The FBI's hostage rescue team breached the synagogue and rescued the hostages around 9pm, Colleyville Police Chief Michael C. Miller said. The hostages, all of whom were adults, were not physically harmed and did not require medical attention, offi