The two men shot dead in Shfaram are Noor Hariri, a resident of the city who grew up in Umm al-Fahm, and Rami Othman, an architect from Kabul village in Western Galilee. Hariri's two brothers were murdered in 2018 during a shootout over criminal background at a gas station near Megiddo Junction. Police reported earlier that they opened an investigation, and that the incident has a criminal background.