Brutal murder suspect of Orthodox Jewish man identified, on the run

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News

Washington D.C. police named Avery Miller, 27, as the suspect who is believed to have brutally murdered Aryeh Wolf, an Orthodox Jewish man from Baltimore, in an apparently unprovoked attack.

Wolf, who was 25, was married and the father of a six-month-old baby. He was installing solar panels in a Southeastern D.C. neighborhood when Miller “walked up, produced a handgun, and shot multiple times,” D.C. police Capt. Kevin Kentish told The Washington Post.

Ynet reported that Wolf’s family said they believe that he is the victim of an antisemitic hate crime, as he wore traditional religious Jewish clothing which made his faith clearly identifiable.

 

“We want everybody looking for this individual. This person is armed and dangerous,” Kentish said in a press conference.

According to local news outlet ABC 2 Baltimore, Miller had previously spent time in prison for assaulting a police officer.

“There is just no way this is real,” Wolf’s wife, Mindy, wrote in a letter that was read aloud at his funeral earlier in August.

“You took care of me when no one else could have. There is a gaping hole in my heart that only your love is able to fill. Two and half years with you will never be enough.”

Wolf was a regular volunteer at Chai Lifeline, a charity thT helps children suffering from serious illness.

“May they be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.”