On Wednesday evening, Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi, 21, drove his vehicle at high speed into a crowd of Israelis on a light rail platform at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, wounding eight people. 3-month-old Israeli-American Chaya Zissel Braun died hours later, and Karen Yemima Muscara, an Ecuadorian woman in her twenties, died from her injuries last night.

As al-Shaludi attempted to run away, he was shot by an Israeli security guard. In a video, the guard stood over the mortally wounded al-Shaludi, pointed a gun in his face at point-blank range and taunted, “Do you want it?”

That night, Mohammad Mahmoud of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association was prevented by the army from visiting al-Shaludi in the hospital. He died hours later. As a result of the army banning visitors to the hospital as al-Shaludi lay dying, Israel prevented any psychological evaluation or statements that could reveal the nature of the incident. This move ensured that nothing would surface that could derail the impending media frenzy.

Immediately, Israeli media branded the incident a terrorist attack and declared al-Shaludi was a Hamas operative with a history of terrorism. Yet according to prior Israeli investigations and statements from his family, he was not affiliated with Hamas. Al-Shaludi had spent 14 months in Israeli prisons for stone-throwing — not exactly an act of a mastermind terrorist.