FBI Director Christopher Wray pledged to thoroughly, aggressively and vigorously investigate the attack on Saturday, Jan. 15.
– FBI Director Christopher Wray called Saturday’s hostage situation at Colleyville synagogue Congregation Beth Israel “an act of terrorism” against the Jewish community.
“Let me be clear and blunt,” said Wray. “The FBI is and has been treating Saturday’s events as an act of terrorism targeting the Jewish community.” But that changed when their hostage-taker held them at gunpoint and placed his first demand: calling another rabbi whose name he had read about.
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