White House: Colleyville Hostage-Taker Had Raised No Red Flags

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The gunman who took four people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who was among the hostages, said in a TV interview that he had let Akram into Congregation Beth Israel because he appeared to need shelter. The rabbi said the man wasn’t threatening or suspicious at first, but later he heard a gun click as he was praying.

, a Pakistani neuroscientist who is suspected of having ties to al-Qaida and was convicted of trying to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The prison where Siddiqui is serving her sentence is in nearby Fort Worth. Investigators believe he had initially traveled to New York believing that Siddiqui was still being held there — where her trial occurred — without realizing she had been sent to a federal prison in Texas.

Investigators are still sorting through Akram’s movements in the U.S. and reviewing his financial and phone records, but believe he may have traveled by bus to Texas, two of the officials said.

 

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