A man shot and killed his pregnant ex-wife and then critically wounded himself in an apparent suicide attempt in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo on Thursday.

From an initial investigation, police suspect that the two met outside the woman’s residence, after which the man shot her with his licensed handgun, which he owns due to his work as a security guard.

He then attempted to take his own life.

The victim was 25 and recently remarried, according to the Michal Sela Forum, which combats domestic violence.

The Ynet news site cited relatives of the victim as saying the divorce “wasn’t ugly” and that the woman, who worked at a nursery, had become religious and remarried through a matchmaker.

Paramedics who arrived at the scene of the shooting in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood found the pair, both in their mid-20s, lying on the ground unconscious and suffering from gunshot wounds.

The woman, who was in critical condition, succumbed to her injuries while en route to the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, Hebrew news outlets reported.

As of Thursday night, the man was in critical condition after being brought to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Law enforcement said that there had been no........

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