Pursuit of Tel Aviv Shooter Enters Fourth Day

A shooting in Tel Aviv that left three dead and several wounded on Friday remains an active investigation as the shooter is still at large, reports Yediot Achronot’s Eli Senyor, and the hunt for him continues:

Police, detectives, and special units continued to search the neighbourhood, knocking on doors – especially ground-floor houses and homes belonging to the elderly – in order to make sure that the armed man had not holed up and taken someone hostage…

The known movements of Melhem on the day of the attack were a visit to natural products store Anise on Dizengoff Street, from where he continued to the street and sprayed bullets at patrons of the Hasimta bar, killing Shimi Roimi and Alon Bakal and wounding seven others.

Melhem also shot at other businesses, shattering windows, and then fled without being stopped.

Following the killings at the bar, the attacker began running north on Dizengoff Street – not far from the local police station. According to police assessments, he turned on foot towards Ibn Gabirol Street, where he got in Ayman Shaaban’s cab. He traveled north with Shaaban, and then murdered him as well, near the Mandarin Hotel. He dropped the body there, and took the cab a few hundred meters, then abandoned it on Namir Road, not far from a bus station.

The attacker’s cell phone was found on Reading Street in the Ramat Aviv neighbuorhood the same day. Since then, thousands of Shin Bet members and police officers have been searching for him.

With Melhem still being at large, many children did not attend school on Monday.

We will provide more updates to this continuing story as they become available.

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