One of the hostages who escaped from a gunman holding three people captive in a Texas synagogue over the weekend has recounted the harrowing final …
One of the hostages who escaped from a gunman holding three people captive in a Texas synagogue over the weekend has recounted the harrowing final moments of the tense 10-hour standoff. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said in an interview with CBS This Morning that at one point he noticed the gunman wasn’t in a good position, and Cytron-Walker made sure the other two hostages were ready to flee. « I told them to go. I threw a chair at the gunman. And I headed for the door. And all three of us were able to get out without even a shot being fired, » Cytron-Walker said. Video from the local TV station WFAA shows three people run out of the synagogue before a fourth person emerges holding what appears to be a gun. The person then retreats back inside, and moments later police breached the synagogue. A fourth hostage had been freed earlier in the day. Cytron-Walker’s comments came just hours after the FBI identified the alleged hostage taker as Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British man. Akram died on the scene, but authorities haven’t said if he took his own life or was killed by police. President Biden called the incident an « act of terror, » and federal authorities say they are now investigating it as terrorism.
