An 11-hour hostage situation at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville ended Saturday evening with all hostages unharmed and the lone suspect dead....
Members of the FBI exit a side entrance while conducting SWAT operations at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. All four hostages were safe Saturday night after an 11-hour standoff inside a synagogue.Revised at 5:38 p.m. Jan. 21 to include comments from Matthew DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI's Dallas office.ended Saturday evening with all hostages unharmed and the lone suspect dead.
About 200 law enforcement officials from multiple agencies were involved in the response, including the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, which flew in from Quantico, Va. The FBI describes the teamHere’s what you need to know about what the team does and why it was created.
“They determined they needed to send two full teams,” he said. “In about six hours they were here. They were on the ground in shorter time than that.” After a roughly 11-hour standoff, the FBI was approaching the building at the same time the three remaining hostages escaped the synagogue.“This was both a hate crime and an act of terrorism,” DeSarno said.
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