U.S. and British authorities are contintuing an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas Reform synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi crediting past security training for getting him and three members of his congregation out safely.

The AP reports that Reform Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said security training at his suburban Fort Worth congregation over the years is what allowed him and the other three hostages to make it through the 10-hour ordeal, which he described as traumatic.

“In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening,” Cytron-Walker said in a statement. “Without the instruction we received, we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself.”

{Matzav.com}