capture some sort of muffled audio of what sounds like talks between police and the suspect. we are hearing unconfirmed reports of the fact that the suspect is, in fact, armed but again, we have not confirmed those reports. want to bring in jessica and james hartley, reporters with the fort worth star-telegram who are together in a seek there. so, jessica, i ll go to you first, and just kind of give me an update on anything you guys know on the scene there. yeah, so, we arrived to the scene probably an hour or two ago, and the way we learned about it was actually through twitter. the police department was tweeting that there was a situation going on in colleyville and that they were telling residents to stay away from the scene. they were making sure no one was around it and that kind of thing, and so we came out to the scene, and here, police aren t really saying much. we were just watching the livestream as well and we were trying to see if we could hear anything, but other than
vehicles, fire vehicles, as well armored vehicles on scene there. authorities are negotiating with a man who has allegedly taken people hostage at this local synagogue. the service was, in fact, being livestreamed on facebook. the recording was continuing with muffled sounds, muffled audio, what sounded like negotiations happening ongoing between the hostage taker and possibly police, also just spoke to some local reporters who were on the scene as well trying to gain more information. they were telling me they had overheard this individual saying that they would be dying at the end of this, that they were going to die at the end of this, also asking, urging to speak with their sister. as of yet, we have no idea what this individual s motive is and/or whether or not the synagogue was, in fact, armed. we do know it s a saturday, which is shabbat services all throughout the day, so this very well may have been a packed synagogue, though we don t know the numbers of folks that were inside
suburb of dallas-fort worth. i spoke to a local reporter about the situation on the ground outside the synagogue. it s pretty difficult right now to get any details and i think it s important to note right now no one has confirmed whether or not the suspect inside has a gun. we ve also seen reports that he was threatening people inside with a bomb. that hasn t been confirmed either, but yes, like you said, really the information that we have been able to gather so far is from that live stream where the audio was muffled but we were hearing, you know, certain sentences, like, there s going to be two bodies coming out of here, me and my sister. we did hear that he was trying to get police not to come inside and basically just alluding to the fact that that would not end well if they were to enter the building. but that s really all that we ve been able to pick up so far. do we know how long this
the fort worth star-telegram reporting authorities are negotiating with a man who has taken people hostage. we re learning the service was being livestreamed on facebook. the recording is continuing to capture muffled audio of what sounds like talks between police and the suspect. we re hearing from the colleyville police sergeant, darren nelson, that negotiators have, in fact, made contact with somebody inside of the synagogue who they believe is a suspect. we have heard reports of this hostage taker being armed, although those reports have not yet been confirmed. the man could be heard having a one-sided conversation in what appeared to be a phone call during a livestream of the reform jewish synagogue s shabbat service. the live stream cut off around 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time. by the way, this is a congregation that was established in 1999, the beth israel congregation, and again, in colleyville, texas, just a
and we re working on trying to figure that out as well. so, this is actually some of the most information that we ve gotten from this situation in that you heard in this audio, this individual, this suspect, you don t know who he was talking to, but he was saying he was going to die numerous times over the course of this audio and then demanding to speak with his sister. you have no idea, james or jessica, whoever wants to jump in here, as to who this individual is, the name of this individual or who his sister, in fact, might be? no, we don t know anything yet and nothing s confirmed. okay. yeah, we have some possible tips that we re following up on but nothing that we have been able to confirm. got it. have you guys ever seen anything like this happen in this area before? it was, i think, january of 2020, white settlement had a an instance where a gunman went into a church, planning to shoot