A brother of Akram said that he had undiagnosed mental health issues that were well known to the Blackburn community, and that three months prior to the incident, a younger sibling had died.
During negotiations, he said that he had six children. As a youth, Akram was expelled from school for getting involved in fights, and his parents subsequently sent him to a military school in Pakistan. He was born to a family originally from Jhelum, a city in Pakistani Punjab. Malik Faisal Akram was a 44-year-old British citizen originally from Blackburn, Lancashire, in North West England.
Cytron-Walker credited the information learned in the courses with saving the hostages' lives. Ĭlergy and staff at the synagogue had taken courses for a number of years through the FBI, the Anti-Defamation League, the Colleyville Police Department, and Secure Community Network in order to prepare for the possibility of an intruder. Cytron-Walker was already set to leave the congregation in June 2022 when the incident occurred. He became the congregation's rabbi in 2006, and he is known for his work in interfaith relations. The synagogue's rabbi at the time of the crisis was Charlie Cytron-Walker, originally from Lansing, Michigan. The congregation is smaller than other Jewish congregations in the area at the time of the incident, the congregation had around 140 members. After in its early years holding its services at rented facilities, Congregation Beth Israel opened a synagogue of its own in 2004.
The congregation was initially a chavurah established in 1999 with 25 families a religious school with 75 children was founded shortly afterward. Tactical officers from the FBI Hostage Rescue Team subsequently entered the synagogue and fatally shot Akram.īackground Congregation Beth Israel Ĭongregation Beth Israel is a Reform Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, a suburb 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Fort Worth in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. He released one hostage after six hours, and the remaining three hostages escaped eleven hours into the standoff. Hostage negotiations ensued, during which Akram demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national and alleged al-Qaeda operative imprisoned in nearby Fort Worth for attempted murder and other crimes.
On January 15, 2022, Malik Akram, a 44-year-old British Pakistani armed with a pistol, took four people hostage in the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, United States, during a Sabbath service. Effort to release Aafia Siddiqui from prison, antisemitism, Islamic terrorism
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