Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

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 Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

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, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      218·
      1 month ago

      That’s even worse then. Not even the excuse of growing up there to fall back on. They chose to work there still.

            • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
              71·
              1 month ago

              Unh huh, because that’s what the US so famously did in WWII, target only the Nazi leadership while refusing to attack anyone else. Very definitely a great way to defeat facism.

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
          92·
          1 month ago

          If you conveniently forget to mention where it is exactly they happen to work, of course it sounds silly.

            • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
              121·
              1 month ago

              Can we circle around to the nuance thing? These were Embassy staffers.

              And whatever innocent or less implicated person who might have died in an attack such as this would be the fault of the Israeli state.