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Michael Williams

Man who sold gun used in Colleyville synagogue hostage situation sentenced to 8 years

The man who sold the gun used by Malik Faisal Akram to take hostages at a Colleyville synagogue in January was sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison on a gun charge, authorities said Monday.

Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams, 33, was sentenced to 95 months in prison Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge David Godbey. He was indicated in June on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm after authorities linked him to the gun used by Akram to take four people hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on Jan. 15.

By the end of the hours-long standoff, the hostages had either been released or escaped unharmed, and Akram was fatally shot by an FBI team.

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