Israeli cops kill US gunman in hotel shoot-out

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Israeli police killed an American gunman who opened fire in a seaside hotel packed with tourists. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports.By NBC News staff and wire reportsUpdated at 9:30 a.m. ET: JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces on Friday killed an American man who had earlier shot dead one person in a seaside hotel packed with tourists, police said.

Police surrounded the Leonardo Club hotel in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat after the man "grabbed a weapon from a security guard and shot a hotel worker," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The hotel employee later died.


 

Follow @NBCNewsWorld The gunman barricaded himself in the hotel kitchen, and fired at law enforcement officers. He was shot dead by members of a military counter-terrorism squad, a military source told Reuters.

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[KingFemzee]

Definately that man must be insane.