MALIK FAISAL AKRAM

Earlier Wednesday, British police said they arrested two more men in Manchester related to the hostage-taking incident.

Henry Williams is a convicted felon who was banned from owning the gun he's accused of selling to Malik Faisal Akram.

The Justice Department says a Texas man has been charged with a federal gun crime after authorities say he sold a gun to a man who held four hostages inside a Texas synagogue earlier this month.

Rabbis, public officials and others made statements of defiance against antisemitism at Sabbath services a week after last weekend's hostage siege at a Texas synagogue.

An FBI official says that in the final moments of a 10-hour standoff with a gunman at a Texas synagogue, the remaining hostages and the officials trying to negotiate their release took “near simultaneous plans of action,” with the hostages escaping as an FBI tactical team moved in.

A British man who held four people hostage in a Texas synagogue ranted against Jews and American wars in countries like Afghanistan as his brother pleaded with him to give up and free the captives.

An intelligence bulletin obtained by CBS News says federal law enforcement officials have seen signs since the standoff that it might inspire similar incidents.

For many Jewish leaders, the hostage standoff in a Texas synagogue was all too familiar.

The centuries of conspiracy behind 11 hours in Texas

Akram was not believed to be included in the Terrorist Screening Database, a listing of known or suspected terrorists maintained by the FBI.

A White House spokeswoman says an armed British man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended in his death entered the United States without raising any red flags during multiple checks against law enforcement databases.

The gunman took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death.

The gunman took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said he and the two other remaining hostages were "terrified," especially during the last hour of the standoff Saturday night.

Malik Faisal Akram, a British national, was killed after an hourslong standoff at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. The hostages escaped.

Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, strives to be a place where people belong, according to their website. So when a stranger knocked on the door, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, originally from Lansing, let him in.

The 44-year-old suspect was killed Saturday night after the three hostages escaped. A fourth hostage was released.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker's comments came just hours after the FBI identified the alleged hostage taker at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas as Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British man.

The suspect was identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, who was killed Saturday night after the four hostages were released.

Overnight winter weather that slammed the Southeast over the weekend moved north, causing massive power outages and coating roads in a dangerous mix of snow and ice. Nikki Battiste has the latest from upstate New York.

The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services says he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after an hourslong standoff.

The hostage taker was was 44-year-old British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, authorities said. There was no indication that other people were involved in the incident, the bureau added.

The FBI has identified the man killed after taking hostages at Texas synagogue as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram.

Police in England say they have arrested two teenagers in their investigation into an armed British national holding four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue.