A well-known Israeli torts lawyer was shot and killed in his office in Rishon Lezion on Tuesday afternoon in what police characterize as a premeditated killing sparked by a financial dispute over an unpaid damages settlement. The victim's law partner told investigators he initially heard only a brief conversation between the two men before realizing shots had been fired: "I heard them talking, not shouting, just a very short conversation. After that I heard a volley of shots, and then I saw him walking quickly out of the office." "For the past three years I've been pursuing him," the suspect told investigators, according to Hebrew media reports. After the shooting, the suspect fled the office building on Rozhansky Street and traveled on foot from Rishon Lezion to Ashkelon, covering the distance "through the fields," according to his account.