Chanting Allah-o-Akbar, Jew shot 10 times by Israeli guard

An Israeli security guard shot dead a Jewish visitor at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the site where Jews can pray, yesterday, apparently mistaking him for a Palestinian.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that he was being taken in front of a magistrate, but had no further details.
“There was a Jewish guy, an Israeli guy, who was in the bathroom area,” Rosenfeld told AFP. “He for some reason shouted Allah-o-Akbar,” Rosenfeld said. “A security guard drew his weapon and fired several shots at the suspect ... He died from his wounds a few moments ago.”
An acquaintance told army radio that the man was a volunteer at a nearby soup kitchen run by the Hassidic Chabad movement.
“He’s a regular here, well-known,” David Dahan said. “He’s on his own here, his parents are in France.”
Paramedic Zeevi Hessed told news website NRG that his team rushed to the scene as reports of a shooting came in. “When we reached the place, we saw him lying at the Western Wall plaza,” he said. “He had been shot in several parts of his body... Sadly there was nothing we could do but declare him dead.”
Rosenfeld said that an investigation had been opened into the shooting. Public radio quoted the private security guard as telling police investigators that he thought the man, 46, was pulling something from his pocket as he shouted, and was about to attack him. It said that police found nothing suspicious on the man’s person.
Privately-owned Channel 10 cited witnesses as saying that the guard fired between seven and 10 bullets, that the fire was unjustified, and that the man appeared to be a harmless eccentric.
Ynet quoted witnesses it did not identify as saying that the guard did not fire warning shots or attempt to disable the man but shot directly at his chest.