All the hostages taken throughout a Shabbat service at Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, TX have been launched and are protected, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) tweeted Saturday night time.

Prayers answered.

All hostages are out alive and safe.

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January sixteen, 2022

The gunman had originally taken four people hostage, together with the congregation’s rabbi. He later released one hostage amid negotiations, who was once unhurt.

In step with the Fortress Worth Famous person-Telegram, “a loud bang followed via what gave the impression of gunfire was once heard about 9:12 p.m.” out of doors the synagogue. Abbott’s tweet got here approximately 20 minutes later.

A couple of reports said that the gunman had demanded the discharge of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist serving an 86-yr-long sentence after being convicted of attempting to murder U.S. infantrymen.

UPDATE 10:fifty nine p.m. ET:  Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) advised a Big name-Telegram reporter in a textual content that the hostage-taker is dead.

UPDATE 11:sixteen p.m. ET: Via a commentary from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Siddiqui and her domestic condemned the hostage scenario and denied preliminary reports that the hostage taker was once her brother.

“We wish to make it very well known that the hostage-taker is NOT Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s brother, who isn’t even in the identical region where this horrible incident is going down,” CAIR’s Houston chapter said in a statement shared with the aid of the megaStar-Telegram. “We want the hostage-taker to understand that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her domestic strongly condemn this act and do not stand by using you. Dr. Aafia’s domestic has all the time stood agency in advocating for the release of their sister from incarceration with the aid of criminal and non-violent manner only.”

The suspect, whose identification has not but been demonstrated through the FBI, is reportedly a forty four-yr-outdated Muslim British citizen who recently traveled to the U.S.

UPDATE 11:24 p.m. ET: Colleyville Police Chief Michael Miller established in a press conference that the hostage-taker is deceased.

“Someday around 9 p.m. today, this evening, the HRT — the hostage rescue workforce — breached the synagogue,” Miller said. “They rescued the three hostages and the subject is deceased…It is a success as a result of the partnerships with have with our local, state, and federal legislation enforcement companions.”

The FBI said right through the click convention that the 4 individuals who have been taken hostage aren’t in need of scientific attention and have been reunited with their households.

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