Rishon Lezion lawyer shot dead in his office by disgruntled client, police say
Suspected killer turns himself in, was ‘unhappy with the service he received’ and shot the lawyer repeatedly after a heated argument, central district police chief says
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A Rishon Lezion lawyer was shot dead in his office Tuesday, allegedly by a disgruntled client who turned himself in hours later, police said.
A neighboring lawyer saw a “client familiar to him” enter the victim’s office at about 1 p.m., and then heard yelling followed by “at least four gunshots,” Police Central District Commander Superintendent Amir Cohen told reporters at the scene while the manhunt was still underway.
Medics who rushed to the office found the lawyer, a man in his 50s, not breathing and without a pulse, and pronounced him dead on the scene, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.
Cohen stressed that “this is not a nationalist incident,” but rather “a business dispute — apparently the murderer was unhappy with the service he received” from the victim, a torts lawyer.
“The identity of the murderer is known to us,” and he has a record of “lesser priors” including property and firearms offenses that had not suggested “his capacity for murder,” Cohen said.
Police later said in a statement that the murder suspect, a Ramle resident in his 20s, had turned himself in at the Lachish regional police station.
The Times of Israel Community.