Omar Suleiman

And then some of our community groups, we get this message that there is a synagogue that's been taken away.

a rabbi and his congregation taken as hostages and go to this Facebook link and it was the feed of the synagogue and you could hear the gunman shouting.

And it became apparent very early on that it was a man that was claiming to be Muslim that was holding them hostage.

Now all these synagogue massacres, all these places of worship were not attacked by Muslims, right?

This is a different type of situation.

But my first instinct was like all that happened this morning was not random.

So I told my wife and I told my kids, I'm going to go down there to Colleyville.

She was very supportive.

Obviously, there was a moment of shock.

My kids were like, wait, what?

And I said, look, remember what we talked about this morning?

We can't be indifferent to the stuff.

We still go back and revisit that day.

You know, like it's crazy how it was all falling into place.

It's not an accident, right?

So I dropped them off at home and I started to drive to Colleyville.

I called the Irving Police Department and I asked them to call the Colleyville Police Department.

so that they could kind of know that I'm coming down there.

I called some of the faith leaders in the community to see if they could put me in touch with those on the ground so that I wouldn't get shot when I showed up there.

And eventually I had to wait outside until I got clearance to come through and to just offer whatever support I could, pastoral support,