A Rishon Lezion lawyer was shot dead in his office Tuesday, allegedly by a disgruntled client who turned himself in hours later, police said.

A neighboring lawyer saw a “client familiar to him” enter the victim’s office at about 1 p.m., and then heard yelling followed by “at least four gunshots,” Police Central District Commander Superintendent Amir Cohen told reporters at the scene while the manhunt was still underway.

Medics who rushed to the office found the lawyer, a man in his 50s, not breathing and without a pulse, and pronounced him dead on the scene, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.

Cohen stressed that “this is not a nationalist incident,” but rather “a business dispute — apparently the murderer was unhappy with the service he received” from the victim, a torts lawyer.

“The identity of the murderer is known to us,” and he has a record........

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