Malik Faisal Akram (1977-15 January 2022) was a British Islamist who, on 15 January 2022, took four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas (in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area) during Sabbath services. Originally from Blackburn, Lancashire, England, Akram entered the United States at John F. Kennedy International Airport on 27 December 2021, arriving on a tourist visa. He went on to purchase a gun "on the street", according to President Joe Biden, and, at 10:41 AM on 15 January 2022, he entered the Beth Israel synagogue while pretending to be a homeless man in search of shelter. He forcefully took four hostages during a bar mitzvah service, and 200 law enforcement officers and around 70 FBI negotiators from Quantico besieged the synagogue. During negotiations, Akram demanded the release of al-Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui from prison, calling her his "sister". At 9:21 PM, six minutes after some of the hostages sprinted out of the building, law enforcement stormed the building, employing the use of a flashbang. Electricity was then cut to the synagogue, agents breached the building, and Akram was shot dead. None of the hostages were harmed during the hostage crisis.