New details emerge about hostage-taker's behavior in days before Texas synagogue standoff
Source: CNN
New details emerge about hostage-taker's behavior in days before Texas synagogue standoff
By Travis Caldwell, Amir Vera and Jason Hanna, CNN
Updated 1514 GMT (2314 HKT) January 19, 2022
(CNN) — As authorities work to learn more about the armed man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue Saturday, new details are emerging of his activities in the days leading up to the incident, including a heated exchange at a nearby mosque.
Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national who arrived in the US last month, engaged in an 11-hour standoff with police at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, about 15 miles from downtown Fort Worth, that resulted in his death; all the hostages survived.
Just 10 days before the attack, Akram was thrown out of a mosque in nearby Irving, after displaying what was described as erratic behavior.
"He was hostile because he was told that he would have to leave the mosque, that he couldn't spend the night," Khalid Hamideh, chief legal counsel of the Islamic Center of Irving, told CNN.
Those held hostage on Saturday also described Akram's behavior as "increasingly belligerent and threatening," saying he waffled at times between being apologetic and making anti-Semitic remarks.
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