DALLAS — A Colleyville rabbi held captive this weekend for more than 11 hours inside Congregation Beth Israel said Monday that he and two others escaped after he threw a chair at the hostage-taker.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said on "CBS Mornings" he let the hostage-taker inside the synagogue Saturday because the man appeared to need shelter. The gunman had knocked on a glass door and Cytron-Walker took him in and made the 44-year-old British national a cup of tea, the rabbi said.
“When I took him in, I stayed with him,” Cytron-Walker said. “Making tea was an opportunity to talk with him. In that moment, I didn’t hear anything suspicious. ... It was during prayer — while we’re praying — and my back was turned. We face toward Jerusalem while we pray. Right before he revealed himself … I heard a click. And it could have been anything, and it turned out it was his gun.”
