Mordecai Brahman, 27, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder over the shooting in Miami Beach, Florida.
The man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of two Israeli visitors in Florida, USA, believed the victim was Palestinian, police said.
According to the Miami-Dade County Amendment website, 27-year-old Mordecai Brahman was charged with two counts of attempted murder on Sunday and booked after the shooting in Miami Beach the night before.
In his arrest report, police alleged that Brahman “voluntarily stated that while he was driving the truck, he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both.”
Both victims, identified by local media as Jewish fathers and sons visiting Miami from Israel, survived.
Local news reports show that one of the men suffered a shoulder injury and the other injured in the forearm.
In an interview with WPLG Local 10, one of the victims identified as Ari Revay, the shooter said he fired fire on him and his father from the pass track.
“Boom, boom, boom,” he began shooting randomly,” Lebey was quoted as saying in an interview reportedly translated from Hebrew by his cousin.
“He put down the window and placed the driver’s seat and exploded,” Revey was quoted as saying.
The filming comes amid warnings by advocacy groups that there has been a surge in cases of anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic hate since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023.
“This is the latest example of hatred targeting the Palestinian-American community in this country and Palestinians in their hometown,” Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on America and Islamic Relations, said in a statement Monday. .
“Policymakers in our country should stop fostering hatred of anti-Palestinians who hate American crime, leading to the genocide of Gaza.”