The police were called about a man lying on the road at the entrance to a building on HaRave Levi Street in Bat Yam in critical condition with a blood-stained knife beside him on Sunday morning. The man was evacuated to Wolfson Medical Center.
Police officers who arrived at the scene went up to the apartment where the deceased lived and requested to enter. After receiving no response, they forced the door open. Inside the apartment, officers found a woman in her 70s with stab wounds, in critical condition and unconscious. MDA teams arrived at the scene and pronounced her dead on site.
Bat Yam police officers and forensic teams are at the scene, collecting evidence.
Suspected matricide
Police suspect that the man stabbed his mother and jumped from the third floor immediately afterwards. The two lived together with his mother in the same apartment. The incident occurred at around 5 a.m.
MDA paramedics Ron Avizov, Ariel Wasserstein, and Michael Menkov said, “We arrived at the scene and saw a man about 40 years old lying on the pavement, unconscious, without a pulse, and not breathing. We provided him with medical treatment and evacuated him in an MDA intensive care unit ambulance to the hospital while performing resuscitation, with his condition critical.”
“After that, the police led us to an apartment in a building near the scene. A woman about 70 years old was lying unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing, with stab wounds on her body. We conducted medical examinations and were forced to pronounce her dead on the spot.”