He also said he wanted to be able to speak with her, according to the officials, one of whom confirmed that the hostage-taker was a British national.ĭeSarno said Saturday night that the man had been identified "but we are not prepared to release his identity or confirm his identity at this time."Ī rabbi in New York City received a call from the rabbi believed to be held hostage in the synagogue to demand Siddiqui's release, a law enforcement official said. Law enforcement officials who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity earlier said the hostage-taker demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of having ties to al-Qaida who is in a federal prison in Texas. It wasn't clear why the attacker chose the synagogue. But DeSarno said the agency's investigation "will have global reach." Moments later, several rounds of gunfire could be heard, followed by the sound of an explosion.ĭeSarno said the hostage-taker was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community, and there was no immediate indication that the man was part of any broader plan.
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Video from Dallas TV station WFAA showed people running out a door of the synagogue, and then a man holding a gun opening the same door just seconds later before he turned around and closed it. The hostage-taker was killed, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate "the shooting incident." But FBI and police spokeswomen declined to answer questions about who shot the man. when an FBI SWAT team entered the building, authorities said. One hostage was released during the Saturday standoff at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville and the three others got out at around 9 p.m. His brother, Cary, later assaulted and killed four women near Yosemite National Park, and is currently serving a life sentence.COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) - Four hostages were spared and their captor was killed, ending a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue where the hostage-taker - a British national - could be heard ranting on a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Tragically, a decade later Steven was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle and died, aged just 24. Steven had been "Dennis" for so long, he had trouble remembering his real name. They caught a ride to Timmy's hometown, and Steven finally went to the police. One night after Parnell went to work, Steven took Timmy and ran. When Parnell kidnapped 5-year-old Timothy White and began abusing him as well, however, Steven was jolted out of this warped alternate universe. The New York Post reports that this "brainwashing" worked, and Steven admits that "after a while, I was happy." Steven was terrified of Parnell, but also resigned to his new reality.
Steven lived a superficially normal life, attending school intermittently, but at night Parnell would assault him and remind him that his parents had given him away. Hearst became the public face of the concept anyway, and to this day no one is certain whether she suffered a psychological break, cooperated to ensure her safety, or truly joined forces with her inept captors.Īccording to ABC News, Parnell moved around with Steven frequently, never staying anywhere for very long. In fact, she had once been left alone in a van with the keys in the ignition, but made no attempt to escape. Her defense team argued that she'd been brainwashed - a victim of severe Stockholm syndrome. Time notes that there was speculation that Hearst had participated involuntarily, but when the FBI tracked her down 19 months after her abduction, they charged her as a criminal.
(They never had more than 12 members, and their name was meaningless.) Two months later, Hearst shocked the world by announcing her allegiance to the group and publicly participating in a bank robbery with them - carrying an automatic rifle. NPR explains that her kidnappers were members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a rag-tag group of radicals who lacked any kind of coherent ideology.
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