Tamer Abdel Raouf was driving back just days after the August 2013 Rabaa massacre from a meeting with Egypt's new governor, Mostafa Hadhound, on the night of Monday, August 19, 2013, when he was killed on his way home. The meeting had lasted to before Egypt's curfew of 7 p.m. After taking three other journalists home from the meeting, Raouf and Hamed Al-Barbari, a journalist from the daily Al-Gomhuria Egyptian newspaper, were on their way to their homes in Kafr El Dawwar. On their way there, they approached a military vehicle checkpoint on an agricultural road in Damanhur, Beheira. Barburi states that as they approached they were waved on by soldiers to turn around and leave the checkpoint,and as they turned around to leave, soldiers fired on the vehicle, shooting Raouf in the head and injuring Barbari. The vehicle then came to a stop after hitting a light post. Barburi also stated that they arrived at the checkpoint shortly after 6 p.m., before the 7 p.m. curfew.