FORT WORTH, Texas — Nearly two weeks after 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram took a Colleyville synagogue hostage for nearly 11 hours, the Department of Justice announced that a man has been charged with selling the hostage-taker a gun.
Henry “Michael” Williams, 32, is accused of selling Akram a semi-automatic Taurus G2C pistol on Jan. 13, just two days before the synagogue standoff that the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism. The weapon was recovered at the scene after federal law enforcement fatally shot Akram, authorities said.
Williams was first interviewed the day after the standoff, after an FBI investigation found the two men “exchanged a series of calls between Jan. 11 through Jan 13.” Williams, at the time, told law enforcement that he recalled meeting a man with a British accent but was unable to remember his name.
