The FBI has identified the hostage-taker who was killed by police after a lengthy standoff at a Texas synagogue on Jan. 15 as a British national named Malik Faisal Akram.
Akram, 44, was shot and killed when an FBI SWAT team stormed the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, near Fort Worth, at around 9 p.m. local time, following a 10-hour standoff in which four people were taken hostage.
