A Border Guard officer, 28, shot his wife, 28, to death Sunday at their Bat Yam apartment and then shot himself.
Paramedics at the scene attempted CPR at the wife, a warden with the Israel Prison Service, but pronounced her dead at the scene.
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The man was evacuated to hospital, but was also pronounced dead.
According to preliminary police investigation, the husband called his wife's brother and told him: "I shot your sister. Come over, I'm about to kill myself."
- Crime scene in Bat Yam (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
(Photo: Motti Kimchi)
Ayalon Police Chief Commander Yehuda Dahan said that since the crime involved security officials, the investigation will be held in cooperation with the police internal affairs department.
- (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
Edith Wolfson Medical Center in Holon (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
Yaniv, the couple's neighbor, said that he had heard screaming and stepped outside, where he saw the couple's son led downstairs by a relative. "I went into the apartment," he added, "and saw two people – a body near the balcony and a bleeding man with a gun next to him."
The neighbor added that the two, Golan and Sivan Cohen, had moved into the building recently and that he had seen them argue before.
- Police suspect the couple's son was present during the shooting.