The incidents occurred within the same hour at different locations, criminal motivations are suspected and police are investigating if there is a connection between the two incidents.
By ELIYAHU KAMISHERUpdated: JANUARY 9, 2017 10:20Shooting on Hagiborim street in Haifa, Jan. 3, 2017(photo credit: EFFY SCHNAPPER/ MDA)
A 45-year-old man was shot and killed and a rabbi who oversees conversions was seriously injured in two shooting incidents in Haifa on Tuesday.The shooter or shooters are still on the loose after a day-long manhunt. The incidents occurred within the same hour at different locations, criminal motivations are suspected and police are investigating if there is a connection between the two incidents.The first shooting occurred at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Ha’atzma’ut street, where Rabbi Yechiel Illouz, 48, a judge on the Haifa Rabbinical Court for Conversions was seriously injured after being shot multiple times and was evacuated to the Rambam Medical Center.A relative of Illouz told the Ynet news website that the shooting was a case of “mistaken identity.”“He is a quiet person by nature, shy, never argued with anyone in the world,” the relative said.The police were attempting to locate the gunman when a second shooting occurred on Hagiborim Street around 10:20 a.m. The victim at the second shooting, Guy Cafri, 47, was fatally wounded and pronounced dead on the scene by Magen David Adom medics.“Guy was a man with no criminal background, it fell upon us like a thunderbolt,” Cafri’s brother-in-law Shachar Drori told Channel 2, adding that “he had no enemies.”A police spokesman told The Jerusalem Post that there are contradicting eyewitness accounts – some saying the shooter was male, while others said the shooter was female.“At this stage it seems that the two events have a criminal background, the investigation is ongoing,” the spokesman said on Tuesday morning. None of the victims were known to police as people of interest.A gag order issued by the Haifa Magistrate’s Court was placed on the publication of any information in the murder case on Hagiborim Street.
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