The policeman’s family was very lucky.
Via RT:
One of the two Palestinian gunmen who disguised themselves as Orthodox Jews during Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Tel Aviv, took refuge in a police officer’s home after the attacks. He even asked his unsuspecting hosts for water.
Four people were killed in the Tel Aviv terror attack at Sarona Market and several others wounded when two men opened fire in a shopping and restaurant area of the city.
The gunmen have since been identified as Khaled and Mohammed Mahamra, cousins from the town of Yatta in the West Bank, according to YnetNews. They have both been apprehended, with one of the pair still recovering in hospital from a police gunshot wound received in the immediate aftermath of the killings.
It has now emerged that the other sought refuge in the nearby home of a police officer before being arrested.
Israeli media are reporting that the son-in-law of ex-Police Commissioner Assaf Hefetz gave who he thought was a shocked witness some water in his apartment, only to later realize the man was a chief suspect.
The wife of the police officer described to broadcaster Channel 2 the bizarre and frightening moment her family inadvertently sat down with a suspected killer over a glass of water, report Haaretz.
The family reportedly crossed paths with the shooter close to the Cinematheque movie hall on HaArba’a Street as they fled the sound of nearby gunfire.
“We entered the apartment along with another man. He simply ran in with us. I asked him who he was. He didn’t answer. He just asked for water.”