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Two Israeli Embassy employees killed successful D.C.
The victims of a fatal shooting extracurricular the Jewish Museum successful Washington, D.C., person been identified arsenic a young mates who worked astatine the Israeli Embassy and were connected the verge of getting engaged.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry identified the victims arsenic Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, and referred to them some arsenic embassy unit members. The Israeli Embassy said the brace were "in the premier of their lives."
"No words tin explicit the extent of our grief and fearfulness astatine this devastating loss," the embassy said successful a statement connected societal media. "Our hearts are with their families, and the embassy volition beryllium by their broadside during this unspeakable time."
Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., told reporters the brace was a "beautiful couple," and said Lichensky had purchased an engagement ringing "with the volition of proposing to his woman adjacent week successful Jerusalem." World leaders quickly condemned the slayings.
Lore Herzog, who has known Lischinsky since 2018, remembered him arsenic a "very morally upright idiosyncratic with a precise beardown consciousness of justice." The 2 met portion surviving successful Jerusalem.
"Yaron was ace cheerful and seemed to truly emotion everything helium did," said Herzog, who present lives successful Amsterdam. "It was his imagination to enactment successful authorities and planetary relations."
This photograph taken from the authoritative Facebook relationship of The Embassy of Israel to the United States of America, shows an undated representation of Israeli Embassy employees Yaron Lischinsky (R) and Sarah Lynn Milgrim taken astatine an undefined location.
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The AFP reported that Lischinsky was a German dual national. Herzog said that helium "spoke fondly of increasing up" successful Bavaria, a portion of confederate Germany, and was "very overmuch successful emotion with his puerility home" there. He came from a ample family, Herzog said.
"He loved them each dearly and spoke astir them each the time," Herzog said.
Suspect successful custody
Elias Rodriguez has been named arsenic a fishy successful the shooting and is presently successful custody, officials said. Rodriguez, a 30-year-old from Chicago, was initially "observed pacing backmost and distant extracurricular of the museum" earlier helium approached a radical of 4 people, "produced a handgun," and changeable Lischinsky and Milgrim, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said successful a quality briefing.
Rodriguez entered the Jewish Museum instantly aft the shooting, and was arrested by depository security, Smith said. Witness video shows Rodriguez shouted "Free Palestine" portion being arrested.
Rodriguez had discarded the limb utilized successful the shooting, but told constabulary wherever it was. It has since been recovered, Smith said.
Rodriguez besides "chanted 'free, escaped Palestine,' portion successful custody," Smith said.
Metropolitan Police said Rodriguez didn't popular up connected an archetypal hunt of transgression databases and wasn't connected the radar of instrumentality enforcement agencies. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the city's constabulary section and the FBI volition beryllium investigating the shooting.
A Justice Department root told CBS News that Rodriguez whitethorn marque his archetypal tribunal quality arsenic aboriginal arsenic Thursday.
Kerry Breen is simply a quality exertion astatine CBSNews.com. A postgraduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she antecedently worked astatine NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers existent events, breaking quality and issues including substance use.
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