Authorities said a man took hostages during services at a Texas synagogue where the suspect could be heard ranting in a livestream before the feed cut out. 9News
, one of the law enforcement officials said. Siddiqui is in federal prison in Texas.
FBI Dallas spokeswoman Katie Chaumont said an FBI SWAT team was also at the scene and that crisis negotiators had been communicating with someone inside the synagogue. But she could not say whether the person was armed and she declined to describe what the person had said to authorities, citing operational sensitivity.
“It’s an evolving situation, and we have a lot of law enforcement personnel on scene,” Chaumont said.The services were being livestreamed on the synagogue's Facebook page for a time. Thereported that an angry man could be heard ranting and talking about religion at times during the livestream, which didn't show what was happening inside the synagogue.
The man, who used profanities, repeatedly mentioned his sister, Islam and that he thought he was going to die, the Star-Telegram reported.
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