DALLAS — A man accused of selling a handgun to a British national who took a rabbi and three other men hostage at a North Texas synagogue will remain in custody until his trial, a federal judge ordered Wednesday morning after a hearing in Dallas.
Henry "Michael" Williams, 32, of Dallas, is accused of selling Malik Faisal Akram a semiautomatic Taurus G2C pistol on Jan. 13, just two days before the Colleyville synagogue hostage standoff that the FBI investigated as an act of terrorism.
Akram told Williams he wanted to buy drugs and "a machine gun or a weapon that contains a large number of bullets," but ended up purchasing the stolen handgun from Williams, an FBI agent testified.
