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(Jewish Group) Colleyville synagogue: attacker says he released hostages before the shootout
Family of Texas synagogue attacker says he released hostages before the shootoutThe man who held four people hostage at a Colleyville, Texas synagogue Saturday was a British citizen whose family said he released the hostages before being killed in a shootout.
FBI’s office in Dallas on Sunday named the man as Malik Faisal Akram, 44.
Akram held the synagogue’s rabbi and three others hostage for hours on Saturday. He died at the scene, though it is unclear whether he was killed by the SWAT teams that raided the synagogue or if he died of a self-inflicted wound.
In a statement posted on the Facebook page of the Muslim community in Blackburn, in Britain’s northeast, his family said they “would like to sincerely apologize wholeheartedly to all the victims.” The sibling who posted the statement said he or she had been in touch with authorities throughout the hostage-taking.
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