January 26, 2022
Clarion Project Special Report
Everything you need to know about what happened, who did it, the motives behind the act, and the main takeaways and consequences
„On Saturday, January 15, a 44-year-old British citizen, Malik Faisal Akram, held four members of Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas hostage.
Beth Israel’s Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker was at the synagogue preparing for Shabbat services when Akram knocked on a window of his temple. Cytron-Walker invited him in for tea, thinking he was troubled and in need of help.
Law enforcement officials said they learned of the hostage-taking incident when members of the synagogue, many watching the ordeal unfold on an online Livestream feed of the service, called 911.
One of the four hostages was released around 5 p.m., but as the standoff dragged on, Akram began growing more agitated, yelling that he was going to kill the remaining hostages.
Rabbi Cytron-Walker and the other two remaining hostages maneuvered to get as close as possible to the exit door, and in the 11th hour of the standoff, Rabbi Walker threw a chair at Akram and all three made a lunge for the exit. They all escaped unharmed.
Immediately afterward, the FBI’s elite hostage rescue team breached the building and killed Akram.“ (…)
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