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Two Israeli Embassy employees killed successful D.C.
The fishy successful the fatal shooting of 2 Israeli Embassy employees extracurricular the Capital Jewish Museum successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday nighttime has been identified arsenic 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago.
Rodriguez allegedly changeable and killed the victims — a mates astir to go engaged, according to Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the U.S.— arsenic they were leaving the museum, which is located successful the bosom of the U.S. capital.
Israel's overseas ministry identified the victims arsenic Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. The pistillate was an American and the antheral was Israeli, erstwhile Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Mike Herzog told Israeli Army Radio, according to The Associated Press. Leiter said they were "gunned down ... successful the sanction of Free Palestine."
Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said authorities judge the shooting was committed by a azygous fishy who is present successful custody.
What we cognize astir the suspect
The fishy had been seen "pacing backmost and distant extracurricular of the museum" earlier helium approached a radical of 4 people, "produced a handgun" and fatally changeable the 2 victims, Smith said astatine a quality conference. He entered the depository close aft the shooting and depository information arrested him, according to Smith.
"The fishy identified wherever helium discarded the weapon, and that limb has been recovered," Smith said, adding that helium "implied that helium committed the offense."
The fishy chanted "free, escaped Palestine" portion helium was being arrested, video showed.
"Early indicators are that this is an enactment of targeted violence," Dan Bongino, lawman manager of the FBI, said successful a station connected societal media, adding that the fishy was being interviewed by D.C. constabulary successful conjunction with the FBI.
The fishy didn't look successful an archetypal hunt of transgression databases and wasn't connected instrumentality enforcements' radar, Metropolitan Police said. No details connected the weapon acquisition oregon legality of the limb were known arsenic of aboriginal Thursday morning.
The victims
Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said Lischinsky bought a ringing this week "with the volition of proposing to his woman adjacent week successful Jerusalem."
"They were a beauteous mates who came to bask an evening successful Washington's taste center," helium said.
The Israeli Embassy posted a photograph of the 2 victims of the shooting extracurricular the Jewish Capital Museum successful Washington, D.C. connected the nighttime of May 21, 2025. Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were employees astatine the embassy.
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Israel's Embassy said successful a post connected X "they were successful the premier of their lives," calling them "our friends and colleagues."
"The full embassy unit is heartbroken and devastated by their murder," it said. "No words tin explicit the extent of our grief and fearfulness astatine this devastating loss."
Mr. Trump wrote connected Truth Social: "These horrible D.C. killings, based evidently connected antisemitism, indispensable end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism person nary spot successful the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So bittersweet that specified things arsenic this tin happen! God Bless You ALL!"
Sarah Lynch Baldwin is simply a lawman managing exertion of CBSNews.com. She helps pb nationalist and breaking quality sum and shapes editorial workflows.
Faris Tanyos, Kierra Frazier, Pat Milton and Andres Triay contributed to this report.
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