Six, including four minors, charged with murdering teen in a Jerusalem Airbnb
Prosecutors on Friday charged two adults and four minors with premeditated murder in the killing of 19-year-old Benayahu Razi in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem last month.
An indictment was filed at the Jerusalem District Court against 19-year-old Agam Tsarafi, 20-year-old Shilat Houta and four minors, over the killing inside a rented Airbnb.
Another woman, 46-year-old Jerusalem resident Linor Sasson, was charged with obstruction of justice for helping the four minors flee after they allegedly stabbed and beat Razi and a male friend of his with knives, brass knuckles, a club and a kitchen mallet.
Police requested that the court keep all seven suspects in custody until the end of the legal proceedings. The minors, aged 15-17, were not named in accordance with Israeli privacy law.
According to prosecutors, Tsarafi and Houta had rented the apartment for the weekend and invited Razi and his friend to join. Tsarafi and Razi, according the indictment, were in a romantic relationship.
Tsarafi and Houta left the apartment in the afternoon of July 11 following an argument with Razi and his friend, and made their way to Sasson’s home, where they recounted the argument to the four minors and alleged that Razi had been violent, according to the indictment.
Tsarafi, Houta and the four minors then jointly decided to “finish” Razi, and Sasson drove the six murder suspects to the Airbnb apartment while Houta threatened Razi and the unnamed friend and demanded they exit, according to the indictment.
Upon arrival, the suspects found Razi and his friend outside the apartment, and the four minors coaxed the two victims to go back inside for a conversation, the prosecutors charged.
Once inside, they allegedly cornered Razi and attacked him, and also........
