Texas synagogue siege: US gun supplier jailed for almost eight years

Source: BBC

Texas synagogue siege: US gun supplier jailed for almost eight years

25 October 2022

A Texan who sold a British man a pistol he later used in an attack on a US synagogue has been jailed for almost eight years.

Henry "Michael" Dwight Williams, 33, sold the gun to Malik Faisal Akram two days before the siege at the Congregation Beth Israel in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, in January.

Akram, who took four hostages, was shot dead by officers.

Williams was arrested just over a week later.

He pled guilty in June to being a felon in possession of a firearm, prosecutors say. Williams had previous convictions for aggravated assault, which meant, US Attorney Chad Meacham noted, he "had no business carrying - much less buying and selling - firearms".

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