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"It's important to me now that they reach my son and arrest him, because he's still armed, and just like he murdered two people he could murder more." Those were the words spoken by the father of Friday's deadly shooting attack at the Simta bar on Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Street.
The father is the one who called the police and told them that he recognized his son in the footage of the incident that was broadcast on television. "I'm worried and I want to hear that he's in the Police's hands," he said, adding, "I stayed at the police station until 6am. I didn't know about the incident at all. Suddenly friends called and told me. Right after I saw his photo, I drove to the Iron police station and told them it was my son. I'm shocked and my mental state is difficult. We all condemn the event. I don't know from where this disaster came upon us. My son was in therapy. We didn't have a feeling that he wanted to perpetrate any unusual act."
The shooter is a 31 year-old resident of Ar'ara, in the Wadi Ara area. He is an ex-convict who was sentenced to five years in prison after he attempted to forcibly steal an IDF soldier's weapon.
The more time passes, the more the manhunt focuses on intelligence. Security forces questioned the shooter's relatives in an attempt to find out if he was in contact with terrorist organizations before the attack. Shin-Bet people are participating in the search.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4747447,00.html
Eugene
(61,862 posts)Source: The Guardian
Kate Shuttleworth in Jerusalem
Saturday 2 January 2016 13.58 GMT
The man suspected of being behind a gun attack at a Tel Aviv bar that killed two people and left seven wounded has been described as an unstable individual whose cousin was allegedly killed by Israeli border police in 2006.
The 29-year-old Arab Israeli allegedly attacked the busy city centre location on Friday, at a time of heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians following a wave of knife attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The suspect, whose name has been withheld by police, is believed to be from Arara in the Wadi Ara area of northern Israel, and has reportedly served time for trying to snatch a soldiers weapon.
He is alleged to have stolen a gun on Friday from his father, a volunteer with the Israeli police. His father contacted police after seeing security footage images, alleged to be of his son, which were screened across Israeli media.
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Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Another relative said the suspect was not religious and was not affiliated with any political movement.
"He is insane," he said, expressing hope that the suspect will turn himself in, as well as voicing concern he might hurt himself.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.694989