(Hill) President Biden on Sunday called the hostage situation at a Texas synagogue on Saturday an “act of terror.”
“This was an act of terror,” Biden told reporters. “This was an act of terror [that] was not only related to someone who had been arrested I might add 15 years ago and had been in jail for 10 years.”
The hostages at the synagogue were released on Saturday evening, with no reported injuries. The gunman, identified on Sunday as British national Malik Faisal Akram, was killed on Saturday though the cause of death has not been disclosed.
Biden commended the law enforcement members who responded to the scene for doing “one hell of a job.”
