Colleyville police SWAT team involved in incident at synagogue
Dallas Morning News By Michael Williams, Catherine Marfin and Jamie Landers
Authorities are negotiating with a man who appears to have taken hostages inside a synagogue in Colleyville.
It’s unclear how many people are inside the building or whether anyone is armed, Colleyville Police Sgt. Dara Nelson said. No injuries have been reported inside the building, she said.
Police said on Twitter around 11:30 a.m. that they were “conducting SWAT operations” in the 6100 block of Pleasant Run Road. Congregation Beth Israel is at that location.
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UPDATE 1/15/22, 2:20 PM The situation at the 6100 block of Pleasant Run Road posted about earlier remains ongoing. We ask that you continue to avoid the area. We will continue to provide updates via social media.
All residents in the immediate area were being evacuated, and police asked people to avoid the area.
A live stream of the congregation’s Shabbat morning service was removed from Facebook just before 2 p.m.. In it, a man could be heard speaking, at times angrily. The stream began at 10 a.m. and did not show what was going on inside the building.
Commenters on Facebook left messages asking for prayers that the situation would end peacefully.
Nelson said negotiators have made contact with somebody inside the synagogue who they believe is a suspect. Authorities don’t believe there is a threat to the general public.
Authorities have not been inside the building, Nelson said.
Police are aware of the livestream showing the inside of the synagogue, Nelson said.
”Negotiators have contact with this person and are working to come to a safe resolution,” she said.
The FBI and state Department of Public Safety are also involved in the police response, Nelson said.
Around 2:30 p.m., several emergency vehicles — including ambulances, fire trucks and an armored police truck with a long arm on its front that had what appeared to be a drill on the end — were staged at Colleyville Middle School, about a quarter-mile down the road from the synagogue.
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