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Michael Williams

Texas synagogue hostage-taker killed by multiple gunshot wounds, medical examiner says

The armed man who took four people hostage at a Colleyville, Texas, synagogue on Saturday was killed by multiple gunshot wounds after an FBI team raided the building, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.

Police previously have not said whether Malik Faisal Akram was killed by law enforcement, or whether he died by suicide shortly after the hostages escaped out of a side door at Congregation Beth Israel, ending the 11-hour standoff. None of the hostages were injured.

Akram, 44, died at 9:22 p.m. from multiple gunshot wounds and his death is listed as a homicide.

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