Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum
Joseph Gedeon and Lorenzo Tondo at The Guardian:
A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night. The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing a man and woman. Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting. After killing the pair, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said. He was not on any security watchlists and there were no heightened security threats before the shooting, officials said. The firearm was retrieved as well, officials said. The two victims of the shooting have been named as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. They were both Israeli embassy employees, and, according to the Israeli ambassador, Yechiel Leiter, they were a young couple who were about to become engaged. “Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues,” the embassy said on X. “They were in the prime of their lives. This evening, a terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC. “The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder. No words can express the depth of our grief and horror at this devastating loss. Our hearts are with their families, and the embassy will be by their side during this terrible time.”
The killing of two Israel Embassy staffers Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky by Elias Rodriguez does NOTHING to help the pro-Palestinian cause, but instead further fuels the Trump Regime into cracking down on pro-Palestinian speech and activities.
See Also:
Ken Klippenstein: The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto
AP, via HuffPost: 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed In Shooting Near Jewish Museum In DC, Victims Named
