21-year-old indicted for alleged part in triple homicide in northern Arab town

The State Attorney’s Office has indicted a 21-year-old resident of Jadeidi-Makr in northern Israel on suspicion that helped carry out a triple homicide that rattled the northern Arab town of Abu Snan in February.

Salim Hamud is accused of partaking in the shooting of three young men — Wajdi Kheir, Haitem Zainati and Natan Mashlab — at a convenience store just after midnight on February 3. Two others were injured in the incident.

According to the indictment obtained by Ynet, Hamud planned the shooting with several accomplices to avenge the murder of his cousin a year prior. He believed a convenience store they targeted was linked to the Abu Latif crime family, who he blamed for his cousin’s killing.

In March, police investigators in the Lahav 433 major crimes unit arrested seven suspects in connection with the triple homicide.