Hilali was accused of shooting and killing his brother Huzan in the Corniche neighbourhood of Qamishli on 11 June 2012. After the murder, he fled and reportedly went into hiding in the house of Abdul Aziz Tammo, brother of Kurdish Future Movement founder and leader Mashaal Tammo, who was assassinated in Qamishli on 7 October 2011, in Darbasiya.[1] By August, Hilali had ended his practice of water sprays and moved on to create banners and participate in local council trainings in both the Hasaka and Deir ez-Zor governorates. During the same month he stepped on a land mine on the Syria–Turkey border during a trip with another Kurdish Future Movement member to Turkey, and was hospitalized for the next two months.[2]