A fourth hostage was released earlier.Ĭytron-Walker told “CBS Mornings” that he threw a chair at his captor and they rushed out. The captor, Malik Faisal Akram, 44, was killed. Saturday when the last three hostages, who included Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, escaped from the gunman and an FBI SWAT team rushed in.
The standoff in Texas ended around 9 p.m. “My own community knows too well the pain, trauma and lost sense of security that comes when violence forces its way in, especially into our sacred spaces.” “While everyone is physically safe, they are also forever changed,” Myers said.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of Tree of Life, who survived the massacre there, America’s deadliest antisemitic attack, said in a statement that alongside the relief that the Texas hostages were safe, “my heart is heavy.” Eisen said she has been bowled over by the intensity of the support the congregants have gotten during the hostage ordeal, but that she also has gotten a “painful awakening” that “our history is now going to be changed.”Įisen, who noted security at their synagogue has been taken “very seriously, very seriously” for a long time, said a message of support from a member the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 worshippers were killed in a 2018 attack, made her realize “this is part of who we are and how we move forward and respond to this is something we have to think about.”
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