… Shortly after Akram was named as the hostage taker, a post on the Blackburn Muslim Community Facebook page was uploaded, purportedly written by his brother Gulbar.
The post stated that Akram “was suffering from mental health issues” but the family were “confident that he would not harm the hostages”. It stated that family members had been sat in an incident room all night liaising with Akram, the FBI and hostage negotiators.
The post claimed that Akram released all the remaining three hostages before “a firefight has taken place and he was shot and killed”.
BREAKING: Statement from the brother of Faisal Akram of Blackburn who was the gunman in #ColleyvilleSynagogue hostage scenario, shared with @SkyNews pic.twitter.com/CxcuAeDolN
— Inzamam Rashid (@inzyrashid) January 16, 2022
