Police have released security camera footage of the incident in which a 15-year-old Arab stabbed a 21-year-old Jewish man in Jerusalem two weeks ago. A prosecutor's statement against the suspect will be filed later Monday, and will be followed by a charge sheet. The suspect, a resident of the Beit Hanina neighborhood, will also be charged with an earlier stabbing attack that took place in November. The grainy footage shows the youth walking in one of the alleys of the Old City near Shaar Shechem (Nablus Gate). He is marked by a red circle in the video. He can later be seen following the Jewish man and stabbing him. The Jewish man appears to make a half turn and keep on walking. The suspect was located on the morning that followed the attack by police who watch the Old City with security cameras. They directed Border Police to his location, and they arrested him. Police Central Unit investigators tied the youth to the earlier stabbing – which took place at Haneviim Street. The suspect's DNA and fingerprints were found in both stabbing locations. While the footage does not show the victim collapsing, Shaare Tzedek Hospital's deputy director general, Dr. Ofer Merin, told Arutz Sheva the next morning that the screwdriver punctured the man's right lung. "Around an hour ago a youth in his twenties came to us, and said he was stabbed on his way returning back from the Kotel (Western Wall) when he arrived at the Damascus Gate," said Merin. "He came to us with a screwdriver stuck in his upper back, in moderate condition. H e underwent initial treatment in the trauma room, and after imagining checks we removed the [screwdriver] while neutralizing the bleeding area."
