A teenage boy has been charged in the murder of an Israeli national who was gunned down and robbed while working as a locksmith in Tennessee.
An unidentified 17-year-old boy was charged with first-degree murder in perpetration of a robbery and especially aggravated robbery in the killing of Aviv Broek last Friday, Memphis police said.
Broek was killed after being lured to a job on Hernando Road in Memphis, police told The Post last week.
The 21-year-old arrived at the client’s address for work, but when he became unreachable for two hours, a friend went out to look for him and found him shot outside of his car, Israel National News reported.
The attacker stole Broek’s work equipment and left him to die at the scene, the outlet reported.
Authorities have not said whether the fatal attack is being considered a hate crime.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry stated it was aware of the murder and that the details of the case are still being examined.
Broek’s relatives are now working to return his body to Israel to be buried.
A GoFundMe set up to help Broek’s family fund his funeral said the 21-year-old had a “kind heart and a bright future.”
News of Broek’s killing also came after Israel announced it was investigating the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in the United Arab Emirates, with security officials fearing he was kidnapped or murdered by an Iran-linked terror cell.
The rabbi, Zvi Kogan, was later found murdered, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office denouncing his death as a “heinous antisemitic terrorist act.”
