Case solved: Ramot neighborhood resident strangled his four-year-old nephew to death

August 31, 2022   

The police submitted a prosecutor's statement earlier this week, in preparation for filing an indictment against a resident of the Ramot neighborhood in Jerusalem suspected of murdering his 4-year-old nephew on Saturday about two and a half weeks ago. Change of address? Here you will find out if your details are already updated in the voter register. During Shabbat, the police received a report about a 4-year-old boy who was critically injured in his grandparents' apartment in the Ramot neighborhood. The next day, he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officers from the Lev Habira police station, who were called to the apartment, arrested the deceased's 27-year-old uncle for questioning, after it emerged that the boy was staying with the suspect who lives in the apartment of the father and grandmother. The investigation of the incident revealed that at some point, the family members noticed that the boy was not responding to their calls and began searching for him. At some point, the family members broke down the door to the suspect's room, which was locked, where they found the boy lying on the floor while the suspect, his uncle, was sitting next to him. The boy was taken, with efforts to resuscitate him, for further medical treatment. The suspect was arrested for an investigation that was assigned by Zion Region Commander Kobi Yaakovi to the Zion Region Crime Fighting Unit. Despite the efforts of the medical teams, a day later the child was pronounced dead in the hospital. Medical findings and the findings of the investigation revealed that the suspected cause of death was asphyxiation (suffocation), which was allegedly caused by the suspect in the act. After his arrest, the suspect was sent to the hospital and his detention was extended from time to time in court. At the beginning of the week, a prosecutor's statement was filed against the suspect in the act by the Attorney General's Office regarding the intention to file an indictment against him, and the detention of the suspect in the murder was extended until tomorrow.