Ramadan suspected him of plotting to overthrow him and had Murad arrested and demanded that the young prince have his eyes gouged out.
[3] He was a bloodthirsty and violent sovereign; Ibn Abi Dhiaf and the chroniclers of the time relate the multiple acts of savagery committed by Mourad III such as the digging up of the remains of his uncles Mohamed and Ramadan, so that he could fire at their corpses with his musket, or the assassination of his opponents along with their whole families.
He decides to repeat his exploit and take Constantine definitively once the reinforcements arrive; Ibrahim Sherif, his lieutenant, returning from a mission to recruit janissaries in Istanbul, is charged by the Ottoman government with putting an end to his abuses.
While Ibrahim was away on a trip to Istanbul to recruit janissaries, a new war was declared between Murad III Bey and the Dey of Algiers; the Ottoman court, no longer able to control Murad, ordered Ibrahim to return to Tunisia and arrest him.
On 2 June 1702, on the banks of the Wadi Zarka, Ibrahim struck Murad III with a blow from his blunderbuss, before killing him in the presence of his other lieutenants.