for the door. reporter: in this video from our affiliate wfaa, two hostages and the rabbi are seen leaving from a side door, followed by a man holding a gun. less than a minute after the man moved back inside the building, gunfire erupts. and the fbi hostage rescue team quickly rushes in. tonight, investigators say that akram, who was not on any u.s. government watch list, arrived in new york from london more than two weeks ago before traveling to texas. the incident in colleyville unfolding saturday morning when the rabbi says he answered a knock on a synagogue window. the rabbi saying he and akram spoke over tea. at 10:45 a.m., akram interrupting th iing shabbat se. he said he had a gun. it s a nightmare. reporter: for hours, fbi crisis negotiators speaking to the suspect, who allegedly threatened to kill the four
between this incident and lancashire. we know that malik akram grew up here and lived here for much of his life. he has a large family who live in this area and during the siege on saturday his brother, gulbar, was here in the police station in blackburn trying to negotiate with him via the fbi and with british officers liaising with him as well. he was trying to persuade his brother to give himself up, albeit unsuccessfully, but he was involved with that and issued a statement after his brother died confirming his death and apologising to the victims, saying his brother had been suffering from mental health issues. there are, of course, all sorts of questions to answer. how did malik akram manage to leave the country, travel to the united states, be allowed into the us and then buy a gun and get involved in what happened on saturday and carry out this hostagetaking incident? so that is where the investigation will focus
next, the fbi and dhs now warning faith-based whcommuniti about the potential threats of more violence after that hostage standoff in texas. tonight, the rabbi describing the moment he and other hostages got away, saying he threw a chair at the gunman so they could make a run for the door. a cameraman catching them getting out. authorities releasing this image of the attacker, malik akram, saying he was not on any u.s. government watch list. abc s mireya villarreal is in texas. reporter: tonight, new details emerges about that terrifying hostage standoff in texas. a british national allegedly armed with a gun holding four people hostage for more than 11 hours. rabbi charlie cytron-walker describing the moment he and two congregants escaped. the exit wasn t too far away. i told them to go, i threw a chair at the gunman and i headed
england in connection to the hostage stand-off at a texas synagogue have been released. new details emerge about the suspect s behavior leading up to the stand-off. alex hogan is live in london with more. malik akram had a history of criminal and mental health issues here in the u.k. and he had been under investigation until recently. back in 2020 british authorities put this person on a watch list. he was taken off that watch list in 2021 after being deemed no longer a threat. the man from blackburn, england traveled to new york two weeks ago on a tourist visa. a friend of the family says it was widely known that akram wasn t well. having mental health issues but nobody envisioned he would go do something like this.
has been hypersensitive to islamist organizations and their demagoguery and the way they react, and i think they take them to be like the voice of muslim americans across the country, which they re not, and they try to sort of couch their words in a way that s not offensive to those organizations when i think they should just tell us what happened. sandra: the fbi now admitting the hostage standoff at a texas synagogue did target the jewish community, after the initial statement played down a connection to the jewish faith. malik akram was shot and killed ten hours into the standoff. investigators are looking whether he was motivated by the case of a woman currently locked up in a texas prison convicted of planning terror attacks. and we are joined now, chris, did you have a sense right off and welcome, by the way, great to see you. did you have a sense right away