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Justice Department charges a man who allegedly sold a gun to the Texas synagogue hostage-taker
CNN
Federal prosecutors have charged a 32-year-old man with a federal firearm crime, alleging he sold the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage-taker the gun he used during this month's 11-long standoff.
Henry Williams, who was charged Tuesday with being a felon in possession of a firearm, allegedly sold a semiautomatic pistol to Malik Faisal Akram on January 13, according to a criminal complaint.
Two days later, Akram, a 44-year-old British national, held four people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel, the FBI has said. An FBI team killed him after hostages were released or escaped from the synagogue near Dallas, officials said. The FBI is treating the incident, which has put US Jewish communities on edge, as a hate crime and an act of terrorism.