Colleyville Synagogue Attack
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and the alleged perpetrator, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, fatally shot by an FBI SWAT team. Akram allegedly demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year prison sentence for assault and attempted murder of U.S. nationals in Afghanistan at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, roughly 20 miles from the synagogue.
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