The misunderstanding continued even after the shooting: the victims wrote on social media that they had been attacked by an Arab in an anti-Semitic episode.
Two Israeli tourists, a father and son, were injured in a shooting that took place Saturday night in Miami Beach, Florida. The shooter, according to police, was a Jewish resident of Miami, 27-year-old Mordechai Brafman: arrested, he explained to the officers that he " saw two Palestinians and shot them " 17 times. The misunderstanding , however, did not end with the shooting. According to the Miami Herald, in fact, one of the two injured, after the attack, posted the message "death to Arabs" on social media, believing that the person who opened fire had been a pro-Palestinian : "My father and I - wrote Ari Rabey - were victims of an attempted murder with anti-Semitic motivation".
Fortunately, the shooting did not have serious consequences: despite the numerous shots fired by Brafman, one of the two Israeli tourists was wounded in the shoulder and the other in the forearm, neither seriously .
The Miami Beach Shooting
The shooting, according to police reconstructions based on surveillance camera footage, occurred on Pine Tree Drive. Mordechai Brafman was driving his van when he came across the Hyundai carrying Ari Rabey and his father . Without thinking twice, he made a U-turn and pulled into the right lane.
The attacker is a Jew from Miami Beach
Brafman, who according to local media is a Miami Beach Jew, then got out of the van, grabbed his rifle and started shooting at Ari Rabey and his father's car: 17 shots , two of which injured the Israeli tourists. After being arrested on charges of attempted double murder, Brafman gave a spontaneous statement to police explaining that while he was driving "he saw two Palestinians, shot and killed them both." The 27-year-old's lawyer has already requested a psychiatric evaluation for his client.
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