A man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon in downtown Lod, in an incident that police said was linked to a blood feud between two families in the mixed Arab-Jewish city.

Footage emerged from the fatal shooting that showed a man cocking his rifle in broad daylight on a traffic island, before opening fire on three people in a car.

The shooting left one man dead and two injured. The slain victim, 25-year-old Omar Taysir al-Shamali, was suspected of having shot and injured someone earlier this week as part of the same conflict, the Ynet news  reported.

The shooting was preceded by a high-speed pursuit through the city’s downtown, in which the gunman, dressed entirely in black, could seen leaning outside his car’s window and shooting at another vehicle.

The fleeing car then crashed two blocks away from the police station, whereupon the armed man approached the vehicle on foot and opened fire on the three men inside.

Shamali was killed on the spot, while the other two passengers, both of them his family members, were........

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