Militants shot a Coptic Christian man dead outside his barbershop on Saturday in Egypt’s North Sinai region.

Christian Today reports that the man, named Nabeel Saber Fawzi, 40, by International Christian Concern, was killed in the town of El-Arish when four masked gunmen broke into his shop and shot him.

Fawzi had initially left El-Arish with his family just three months earlier to escape the continued threat of violence against Christians, but had returned by himself. A relative told reporters Fawzi had returned to find work and provide for his family, who remain in Ismailia.