Beersheba shooter buried in secret

Itamar Alon, who shot four people to death at Beersheba bank Monday, buried in Beersheba cemetery; funeral lasts minutes, kept secret; 'we are crushed thinking what the victims' families are going through,' his sister says

Ilana Curiel|Published: 05.23.13 , 01:29

Few family members attended Wednesday the funeral of Itamar Alon, who shot four people to death at the Beersheba Hapoalim bank Monday.

The funeral lasted only a few minutes and was kept secret.

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"Why did this happen to us?" the shooter's mother, Hannah Alon, cried out during the funeral.

On Tuesday, she said she couldn’t believe her son had done what he did: "It broke my heart that he destroyed four families. I don’t know what happened to him."

His sister, Kochava Orian, said that the entire family was in pain. "We are so sorry for the victims' families. We are people of faith; we believe everything is destined, but my heart is bleeding and we are crushed thinking what the families are going through.

Alon perpetrated a massacre on Monday at a Beersheba branch of Bank Hapoalim, claiming the lives of the bank manager Avner Cohen, 44, his deputy Meir Zitun, 44, Anat Even-Haim, 34, and Idan Sabri, 22. He then turned the gun on himself after his ATM card was blocked due to a debt of NIS 6,000 ($1,640).