A Makkah schoolteacher was shot dead on Tuesday when a gunman opened fire on him four times in what appeared to be a preplanned killing. The killer reportedly entered the school where his victim, Fayez Al-Shanbari, was employed and asked for him personally at the second-floor teachers' room. When told that Al-Shanbari had left shortly before, the gunman returned down the stairs and encountered his target on the ground floor, where he opened fire. Al-Shanbari was taken to King Abdul Aziz Hospital, but doctors were unable to save him. Police arrested the killer at the scene of the murder. A pupil at the school who witnessed the incident said he was descending the staircase when he saw a man holding Al-Shanbari as if he was embracing him. “I presumed he was a relation of the teacher's,” said Talal Al-Ghamdi, “but then he stepped back a bit and pulled a pistol out of his pocket, loaded it and muttered some words. Then he shot the teacher in the foot, before shooting him three times in the body.” One of the bullets pierced the wall behind the victim. The killer reportedly told police that he had planned the murder after Al-Shanbari had treated him for “the madness he was suffering that caused him insomnia.”
