sábado, 6 de octubre de 2012

American Shot Dead in Israel After Killing Hotel Worker

A New York man who was fired from a hotel in the Israeli resort city of Eilat on Thursday returned there on Friday morning and opened fire amid a crowd of tourists, then killed a kitchen worker before being shot to death by police officers, the authorities said. The gunman, William Herskowitz, a 23-year-old potter from Poughkeepsie, NY, had arrived in Israel on Aug. 27 for a five-month program known as Masa that combines travel and Hebrew study with internships, in this case in hotels in Eilat, a Red Sea port. Yuval Arad, a spokesman for the program, said Mr. Herskowitz was told Thursday that he had to leave the program and decide by next week whether to return home or to remain in Israel with relatives. "There was some problems with his attitude and with the hotel staff," said Mr. Arad, declining to elaborate. Another official with the program, Ofer Gutman, told The Associated Press that Mr. Herskowitz was a "normal guy," adding, "There was nothing that indicated what would happen in the end." Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said the episode began around 9 am Friday, when Mr. Herskowitz grabbed a pistol from a security guard at the Leonardo Club Hotel and fired several shots in the dining area before storming into the kitchen, where he killed a cook, Armando Abed, 33, from the Arab Christian town of Miliya, in Galilee. The shots fired in the dining room did not strike anyone. Mr. Herskowitz then "barricaded himself in the kitchen," Mr. Rosenfeld said <b>...</b>
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