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Conflict Incident Report

Murder in Beiteddine

Date of incident: 
November 29, 2018
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces has arrested a man for murder an hour after he committed the crime, an ISF statement reported Friday.

At midnight on Nov. 29, Kh.Aa., born in 1988, shot dead Syrian national Aa.Kh., born in 1995, before fleeing the scene.

After an undercover investigation by ISF units in Beiteddine, the agency arrested the perpetrator after pursuing him in a car chase between Chouf’s Barouk and Batloun villages.

Primary category: 
Murder
Secondary Category: 
Shooting
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.