The same gang that killed al-Rabou'e on 13 February 2010 had previously attacked him and were arrested, jailed and released in 2009.[6] According to Al-Jazeera, five men invaded al-Rabou'e's Beni Qais home and shot the journalist several times. Most sources say he was shot at his home[2] but one source reported that he was shot at "a mountain pass."[7] In an interview with CPJ, Security Chief Abdelrazaq Azzaraq reported that five individuals were arrested and involved in the murder to al-Rabou'e. Azzaraq believes that the murder was a retaliation of al-Rabou'e's articles involving the crime tactics of the family he wrote about near the end of his life.[8] The Aouni family consists of Ahmad Aouni and his four sons.