Story highlights Funeral for Eric Schwartz will be Sunday

Schwartz, 18, was killed in the West Bank

He was from Massachusetts and was studying in Israel

(CNN) Like a handful of other American Jews in their late teens, Ezra Schwartz went to Israel after high school graduation.

Schwartz had been accepted to college in the United States but decided to spend a gap year in Israel at a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution where students study religious texts.

The 18-year-old was volunteering in the West Bank on Thursday, delivering food to Israeli soldiers, when he was killed.

"That was just the kind of kid he was -- making sure the people around him were taken care of," his longtime camp counselor, DJ Niedober, told CNN.

At a crowded intersection in Gush Etzion, an unidentified gunman fired shots from his vehicle and rammed pedestrians at a busy intersection in, killing three people, including Schwartz.

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