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Pictured above: The site of the horrific shooting that claimed four lives, including that of Israeli immigrant Reuven Rahamim.A Sephardic Israeli businessman who had lived in Minnesota since the 1970’s was killed along with three others in a shooting at the office of his sign-making operation last Thursday. Reuven Rahamim was shot to death in an attack at Accent Signage Systems Inc. in a residential neighborhood on the north side of the Minneapolis city, in an attack that was officially given no motive.

An “incredibly proud husband, son, father and grandfather, has passed away in a senseless act of violence,” stated the victim’s son-in-law Chad Blumenfield. “Other members of the Accent family tragically lost their lives as well, and we mourn their loss.”

Rahamim was the son of Iranian Jews who had immigrated to Israel in the late 1940s. In 1974, the family moved to the United States, settling in Minnesota; in the early 1980’s, Rahamim founded Accent Signage out of his home.

Police spokesman Sgt. Stephen McCarty said the gunman additionally injured four people in the attack before fatally shooting himself. Police have not released his identity.

After the horrific event, a Minneapolis police officer could be seen standing at the entrance of the business, where a mezuzah prominently hung on the doorpost.

McCarty said that the police searched a house where the suspected shooter had resided, but they found “nothing that we know of.”

Reacting to the news, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the victims. “I deplore this senseless violence. There is no place for it anywhere in Minnesota,” Dayton said.

Numerous police cars and SWAT officers descended on the Bryn Mawr neighborhood where the sign business is situated, after an employee called 911 in the afternoon and reported that gunshots had been fired. The initial officers to arrive on the scene evacuated people from the business and sealed off several adjacent blocks.

Marques Jones, 18, said he was standing outside a building nearby with some schoolmates when they heard gunfire coming from the immediate area. “We heard about four to five gunshots,” Jones said. “We were shocked at what happened and we just looked at each other. We all just took off running to our vehicles.”

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