colleyville a man took hostages saturday during services at a texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill us army officers in afghanistanat least four hostages were initially believed to be inside the synagogue according to three law enforcement officials who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and who spoke to the associated press on the condition of anonymity the synagogues rabbi was believed to be among the hostages one of the officials said one of the officials said the man claimed to be armed but authorities had not confirmed whether he isthe colleyville police department said one hostage was released uninjured shortly after 5 pm saturday the man was expected to be reunited with his family and did not require medical attentionauthorities are still trying to discern a precise motive for the attack the hostagetaker was heard demanding the release of aafia siddiqui the pakistani neuroscientist suspected of having ties to alqaida the officials said he also said he wanted to be able to speak with her according to the officials siddiqui is in federal prison in texasthe officials said investigators have not positively identified the man and cautioned that the information was based on a preliminary investigation as the situation was still rapidly developinga rabbi in new york city received a call from the rabbi believed to be held hostage in the synagogue to demand siddiquis release a law enforcement official said the new york rabbi then called 911 police were first called to the synagogue around 11 am and people were evacuated from the surrounding neighborhood soon after that fbi dallas spokesperson katie chaumont said there have been no reported injuries chaumont saidits an evolving situation and we have a lot of law enforcement personnel on scene chaumont saidthe services were being livestreamed on the synagogues facebook page for a time the fort worth startelegram reported that an angry man could be heard ranting and talking about religion at times during the livestream which didnt show what was happening inside the synagogueshortly before 2 pm the man said you got to do something i dont want to see this guy dead moments later the feed cut out a meta company spokesperson later confirmed that facebook removed the videomultiple people heard the hostagetaker refer to siddiqui as his sister on the livestream but faizan syed the executive director of council on americanislamic relations in dallas fortworth texas told the associated press that siddiquis brother mohammad siddiqui was not involved syed said cairs support and prayers were with the people being held in the synagoguetexas resident victoria francis told the ap that she watched about an hour of the livestream before it cut out she said she heard the man rant against america and claim he had a bombhe was just all over the map he was pretty irritated and the more irritated he got hed make more threats