Teenager arrested for killing Israeli locksmith who was invited to a job in Memphis

A teenage boy has been charged with murdering an Israeli national who was shot and robbed while working as a locksmith in Tennessee.

An unidentified 17-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder for robbery and especially aggravated robbery in the killing of Aviv Broek last Friday. Memphis police said.

Broek was killed after being set up for a job on Hernando Road in Memphis, police told The Post last week.

The 21-year-old came to his client’s address for work, but when he could not be reached for two hours, a friend went out to look for him and found him shot outside his car. Israel National News reported.

The gunman stole Broek’s work equipment and left him to die at the scene, the outlet reported.

Authorities did not say whether the deadly attack was being considered a hate crime.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it was aware of the murder and that the details of the incident were still being examined.

Broek’s relatives are now trying to return his body to Israel for burial.

A GoFundMe set up to help Broek’s family finance his funeral said the 21-year-old had a “good heart and a bright future.”

News of Broek’s murder came after Israel announced it had opened an investigation into the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in the United Arab Emirates; security officials feared he had been kidnapped or killed by an Iran-linked terrorist cell.

Rabbi Zvi Kogan was later found murdered, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office condemned his death as a “heinous act of anti-Semitic terrorism.”