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COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour...

COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour...

Things to know today: Manchin, Sinema under fire as voting rights debate begins; more info revealed about Texas synagogue hostage-taker; LA Rams oust Cardinals.

An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue had spent time in area homeless shelters in the two weeks leading up to the attack and was dropped off at one by someone he appeared to know.

COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour...

COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services said Monday that he threw a chair at his captor before escaping

British suspect Malik Faisal Akram who died after allegedly taking Jewish worshippers hostage at a Texas synagogue stayed at Dallas-area homeless shelters, and a pastor contacted the FBI claiming to have witnessed the suspect being “dropped off” at one shelter by someone who hugged him and appeared to know him.

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Malik Faisal Akram, 44, had stayed at Dallas-area homeless shelters for about two weeks before taking four people and a rabbi hostage in a 10-hour siege on Saturday, ending in his death.

Dallas nonprofit Our Calling was one of two organizations that sheltered Malik Faisal Akram in January. More than a week later, it realized Akram was the hostage-taker at the center of the Colleyville crisis.