A former gang member from Liverpool has spoken of his 'shock and sadness' after learning his friend was shot dead by police during a hostage siege in Texas.
Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, was shot after an 11-hour hostage standoff at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in the Dallas area on Saturday evening.
The four hostages escaped unharmed. Now Liverpool man Darren Gee, 43, has said how he forged a close friendship with Akram on the city's notorious Grizedale estate, the Liverpool Echo reports. READ MORE: Woman who brutally murdered her mother then hid her body in cupboard under the stairs faces life sentence Gee served 18 years in prison for organising the murder of David Regan during a drug war which raged across the city in 2004.
Gee controlled a violent drug gang rooted on the Grizedale estate and fought running battles with rival criminals and the police.
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