Mohammed Abu Omar got up early to go to a mosque for Ramadan prayers . Instead , the year - old was abducted , then killed in his hometown of Jerusalem . A friend described Abu Khdeir , who would have graduated high school next year , as kind . ` But he never made it . ` Everyone respects him , '' his mother says of a boy who ` ` never gets into trouble at all ''
Mohammed Abu Omar got up early to go to a mosque for Ramadan prayers . Instead , the year - old was abducted , then killed in his hometown of Jerusalem . A friend described Abu Khdeir , who would have graduated high school next year , as kind . ` ` Everyone respects him , '' his mother says of a boy who ` ` never gets into trouble at all ''