Police are searching for an unidentified male suspect in the shooting of a West German tourist whose comatose body was left for dead in a field belonging to Kibbutz Revivim in the Negev Friday.
The victim was identified Monday as Miriam Stucker, 20, who was shot in the head and is in critical condition at a Beersheba hospital where she remains in a coma. The identification was made by a friend, a German man who works at the Nabatean experimental farm in the Negev. He said the young woman was on the way to visit him when she was shot.
Police believe the shooting occurred Friday afternoon. Two women Kibbutz volunteers who were in an orchard at the time told police they heard shots but thought it was a hunter. They said they saw a man leave the area later and drive away in a late model white four-door car. Stucker was found Saturday by Kibbutz members who thought at first that she was asleep. When she failed to move they discovered she was seriously wounded.
The police said they would subject the two women witnesses to hypnosis which might produce a more detailed description of the man they saw or his car. They said the method was used in their investigation of a very similar shooting last summer. The victim then, too, was a young woman who was shot in the head and left in a field in the Revivim area. That shooting also occurred on a Friday. Neither Stucker nor the earlier victim had been sexually assaulted.
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