Family of Manchester attack victim Melvin Cravitz remember the synagogue security guard as ‘kind and caring’ in touching tribute

Manchester Synagogue attack victim Melvin Cravitz remembered him as ‘gentle and compassionate’ in a touching tribute.

66-year-old Mr. Cravitz of Crumpsall was killed by Jihad Al-Shamie on Thursday, working as a security guard at the Heaton Park Hebrew community.

He bravely stopped the attacker from entering the building before he was stabbed.

The security guard was a friend of Rabbi Daniel Walker, who helped keep the knife in the gulf during the knives in Yom Kippur, the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar.

Mr. Cravitz leaves behind his wife Karen, whom he married in August 2009.

In a tribute, his family said: ‘Melvin would do anything to help everyone. He was very kind, compassionate, and he always wanted to chat and know people.

“ Was dedicated to his wife, his family and loved his food. Wife, family, friends and community will be very longing.

‘We want privacy while trying to agree with this shocking loss.’

The 66 -year -old was left behind by his wife Karen, whom he married in August 2009.

Büyük Manchester police shared the statement, Mr. Cravitz worked as a security guard during the attack and said, ‘The attacker boldly stopped entering the building’.

The 66 -year -old had previously survived two heart operations and had no own children, but he was seen as a uncle figure to his wife’s children from the previous marriage.

Mr. Cravitz’s two friends described him as ‘very popular’ and smiled ‘always’.

35 -year -old Muhammad Azam, Mail 66 -year -old ‘people never look at the color of the skin’ and ‘Everyone loved him’ he said.

Bay Cravitz, who lived in a four -minute walk from the Heaton Park Synagogue, was killed by Jihad Al Şeme, a 35 -year -old attacker Jihad Al Shame when he arrived for prayers yesterday morning.

However, his cousin Phil Bentley said that Mr. Cravitz normally participated in Yom Kippur prayers later in the day and was a loss to explain why he was there.

Mr Bentley, who lives on a plain next to the synagogue, said he heard ‘two pop’ immediately after 9.30 and went out to see the police everywhere.

‘I got out of the apartments, but I had to go back directly, the police were screaming there,’ Back, come back ‘he said.

Melvin was my cousin. He was a cute man, a silent man, a gentle giant.

‘No idea why he was there in the synagogue, not so early.’

53 -year -old Adrian Daulby was killed in the attack after he was accidentally shot by the police

Jihad al-Shamie, a 35-year-old who was killed a few minutes after targeting the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester yesterday. He is believed to be a father and is depicted holding a child

Mr. Cravitz grew up in North Manchester and continued Plant Hill Secondary School in Blackley. About 15 years ago, he married his wife Karen and treated three children and grandchildren like his own.

When the couple died at the age of 89 six years ago, Ardern Road, 350 meters from the synagogue, moved to the house of Mr. Cravitz Phyllis.

He was well known in the Jewish community, and he previously worked in a series of A series, including a driver and the basser supermarket. Although he retired about three years ago, he still helped at the local food bank.

Mr. Cravitz’s former boss David Salzman, ‘Golden heart’ he said.

Salzman, “ `always helped customers, especially to everyone vulnerable or elderly ‘he said. ‘Always an extra miles are gone.’

Mr. Azam, a 35 -year -old, who has one but one to Mr. Cravitz, added: ‘He was a very good man, we can’t believe what it was.

He was a cheerful man responsible for our street. If he started to rain, it was the kind that would knock on your door to tell you to get your washing.

“ He never saw the color of anyone or did not care. Our children loved him. You’d always see him wearing his vest on the street.

“ Was very bubble. Everyone loved him. ‘

The attacker was caught on a armed camera with a knife trying to enter the synagogue moments before being shot by the armed police.

Pakistani Security Officer: ‘He was a very cute neighbor. When we found out that it was a victim, we were ruined.

‘He never saw us as Pakistani, it wasn’t.’

53-year-old Adrian Daulby died in the attack after he was accidentally shot by the police when he was hit outside the synagogue of Al-Shamie.

Mr. Daulby’s family, the loss of ‘heart broken’ said and asked for privacy.

A brief explanation shared on the Facebook page reads: ‘As Adrian’s family, we break our hearts because it passes.

“ When we upset the answers we need and we are looking for privacy now we want privacy. Thank you for your understanding and respect. ‘

His family praised the last action of courage on Friday.

They said: ‘Adrian Daulby was a hero, and he lost his life tragically in the act of courage to save others, he was a beloved brother, he loved four nephews and a nephew and a beloved cousin.

‘The family is shocked by the tragic, sudden death of such a beautiful man until the Earth.

‘The last action was a deep courage and will be remembered forever on Thursday, October 2, 2025 with his heroic action.’

Heaton Park Hebrew Community Synagogue after being attacked this morning, Rabbi Daniel Walker (on the right) took action

In a statement to a neighbor Daily Mail, Mr. Daulby lived on his own after he lost both his parents to cancer and was fighting with the disease himself.

Hussain Shahzad, as a result of unhealthy, said he had discussed whether he would go to Yom Kippur, a nature lover.

The 27 -year -old biomedical scientist fought tears while saying how his neighbor, who lived alone after the death of his parents, spent his time in the garden of his semi -detached house.

Mr. Shahzad added: ‘He loved animals. There was a Youtube channel where birds and wild life uploaded the videos. He would film my chickens.

“ It wasn’t so good lately and said that when I talked to her on Tuesday, Yom Kippur said it would not be fast. So he thought he would go to the synagogue.

‘I didn’t see you went yesterday, but when he went to the synagogue in Sabbath, he would usually wear his best team.’

Today, on a watch for the victims of the attack, the Lord Daniel Walker of the Heaton Park Hebrew community paid ‘terrible wounds’ thanks to one of the ‘heroes’ recovered in the hospital.

Speaking on the Middleton Road near the police cord, he said to the crowd: ‘I have joined the existence here by many dignity that we are very grateful, but first of all I want to introduce young people who stand here.’

Today, heaton Park Shul community, who survived terrible wounds, addressed the ” youngest children ‘one of the heroes’ heroes.

Rabbi, bodies ‘terrorist blocking’ two men healed next to the healing, he added.

Before pioneering a Hebrew prayer, I want to start with prayers for them as traditional. ‘

Al -Shamie’nin massacre carried out and after leaving his wife allegedly fighting against the debt was reported to go out on bail on the allegation of rape.

Guardian reported that the police have been investigated by the police in relation to sexual assault earlier this year.

In addition, although it is not monitored by British anti -terrorism officers, it is thought that the killer has additional criminal convictions.

He lived in the old family house with one of his mother and two brothers, in a council house in Silent Langley Crescent, Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

Neighbors in Silent Cul-de-Sac, Syria-born Al-Shamie’nin ‘a little lone’ appears and usually seen in traditional Islamic clothes and lifting weight in the garden, he said.

Since Findutors.co.uk looks like a list for itself, it is believed that he works as a self -employed teacher who teaches English and computer programming.

Apparently, West Yorkshire, while living in Leeds, said that the profile was prepared with an anglicized version of his name, he spoke Arabic, and that online lessons are used to teach English or teach £ 12 per hour.

However, the birth certificate for his son born at North Manchester General Hospital on October 22 last year lists Al-Shamie’s profession as a ‘full-time father’ and claims that he did not work during birth.

It is said that Al-Shamie was moved to England with her family when she was a little child and was given British citizenship in 2006, but it is not known whether the family came as an asylum seeker or through a immigration plan.