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The Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis was a 2022 incident where a 44-year-old man armed with a pistol took four people hostage in a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, in the United States. The incident occurred on January 15, 2022, when Malik Akram, a British Pakistani man, entered the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue during a Sabbath ...
Texas Officials React To News Of Hostage Situation In Colleyville Synagogue But at 10:40 a.m., the atmosphere shifted dramatically. Akram pulled out a gun and turned the four people present into ...
A Texas teenager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting fire to a synagogue in Austin more than two years ago in an antisemitic attack.. Nineteen-year-old Franklin Sechriest pleaded ...
On 31 October 2021, an arson attack at the synagogue damaged its front doors and stained glass windows, causing more than $250,000 in damage. Franklin Sechriest admitted to conducting the attack out of his hatred for Jews and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on 29 November 2023.
A Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue in an antisemitic attack two years ago was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison. Franklin Sechriest, 20, had previously pleaded guilty to ...
Hostages who had been held for hours inside a Texas synagogue were rescued Saturday night, according to Gov. Greg Abbott, bringing an end to a standoff that had lasted nearly 12 hours. Abbott’s ...
Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a ...
FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a webinar Thursday that the hostage-taking at a Texas synagogue over the weekend was "an act of terrorism targeting the Jewish community."The comment came ...