A man from Florida was arrested and accused of two chiefs of attempted murder after shooting a vehicle with two men inside that he thought he was Palestinians but turned out to be Israeli visitors, the authorities said local.
The Miami-Dade County Corrections website indicates that the suspect, Mordechai Brafman, 27, was accused of two chefs of attempted murder and reserved on Sunday for the shooting on Saturday.
A police report shared by the Miami Beach police service has shown that Brafman, interviewed by the police, said that while he was driving his truck to Miami Beach, he saw two people whom he thought was Palestinian. He said he then stopped, pulled them and killed them, according to the police.
However, the victims survived. One was shot in the shoulder and the other had an injured forearm. They turned out to be Israeli visitors and not Palestinians, police said.
A Brafman’s representative or lawyer could not be immediately identified by Reuters.
Human rights defenders say that there has been an increase in anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States since the start of the War of Israel in Gaza after October 7, 2023, Attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
