A member of the Georgian Jewish community of Moscow was killed on Friday after he tried to break up a fight, Chabad Online reports.

The victim, 26-year-old Yaakov Ben-Mordechai Manasharsvilli Z”L intervened, trying to break up a fight between a number of non-Jews. The niftar was a counselor in a local Chabad House.

It appears after he tried speaking with some of those involved in the fight; seeking to calm them, one of them shot him dead from close range. Those involved fled and remain at large at this time.

The chief of police in Moscow reports this was not an anti-Semitic incident and he is personally going to head this investigation. He is confident that the murderer will be apprehended in the coming days.

The levaya is taking place on Sunday, 28 Iyar 5772 in Moscow.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)