The synagogue was livestreaming its service at the time and the stream remains live. The armed man appears to be a Muslim and is talking about his ancestors, Allah, Mohammed. He says he's been living on the streets for 14 days
Correction, Colleyville, Texas. Congregation Beth Israel.
The hostage taker says at this moment there are no casualties. He's talking at length, says he likes the Rabbi and is demanding to speak to his sister on the phone.
The hostage taker is threatening to shoot hostages, apologising, saying he didn't want to do this.
He's talking about his children, his "six beautiful kids" he's left and saying over and over that he's got hostages and he's going to die. He's apologising.
Again he's asking to speak to his sister, saying "there's a lot of things I will say" once he does. He appears to be negotiating the release of some of the hostages.
The livestream has now been cut, apparently NOT by the hostage-taker. Perhaps by Zoom. Praying for a peaceful outcome.
All my reports of the hostage-taker's words were based on what I could hear via the open stream, so they might include mishearings, mistakes etc.
I also thought the hostage-taker sounded British Pakistani but I wasn't confident enough to share that. But now this is relevant information because (see next tweet)...
https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1482450230750728194
ABC's @AaronKatersky reports that the sister to whom the hostage-taker has been demanding to speak is Aafia Siddiqui.
https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/1482447756342050821?t=MtoOtKaEwkNUI2MBfNu3jA&s=19
Aafia Siddiqui is incarcerated at Fort Worth, TX. Her father was educated in Britain. She has a brother who is/was an architect in Houston.
During her trial, Aafia Siddiqui demanded that the jury take DNA tests to prove that they weren't Jewish. She also sent antisemitic screeds to President Obama from prison. If the hostage-taker is indeed her brother, his target was probably chosen for a reason.
via @jodamarr who heard better some of the gunman's comments. The synagogue let him in because he posed as a homeless man in need of shelter. 
As @DanWilliams points out, it's a common usage among muslims to refer to each other as brother and sister in a religious context. So some caution here over the hostage-taker's identity, though his cause, freeing Siddiqui, seems clear.
https://twitter.com/DanWilliams/status/1482462133229084679
Very relieved to hear that the hostages were released unharmed. The hostage taker died, though his comments throughout made it clear that this was something he expected and perhaps wanted.
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