One Dead As Hours-Long Texas Synagogue Standoff Ends… Governor says, Prayers Answered
Texas State governor Gregory Wayne Abbott announced in a tweet early this morning that the hostage crisis in a Jewish synagogue has finally ended with all hostages free and unharmed. This is coming after an hours-long standoff between the police and a gunman who took four hostages, including a rabbi, in a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas on Saturday night. At about 5 pm Saturday 14 th January 2022, six hours into the hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel, one of the four hostages- a male- was released, according to the Colleyville Police Department, leaving three more in the custody of the gunman. The governor said all hostages have been freed and the suspect dead. The governor’s statement came shortly after an FBI Hostage Rescue Team stormed the building in Colleyville housing the Jewish synagogue in an effort to rescue the three remaining hostages. Details of the rescue operation are still scant although the FBI team that carried out the successf...