2 Israeli embassy staff shot dead outside D.C. Jewish museum
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Suspect Elias Rodriguez, 31, allegedly shouted “Free, free Palestine” after the Wednesday night's deadly shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.
Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago resident, was charged in the deaths of a young couple. Moments after a burst of gunfire was heard outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington on Wednesday night, a breathless man in a blue suit rushed into the building.
The body of Yaron Lischinsky, the Israeli embassy employee who was gunned down in an antisemitic attack in Washington, DC, Wednesday night, is expected to return to Israel on Friday, officials confirmed.
A community vigil will be held Friday evening at the Waterways Shops in Aventura in memory of Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, who were fatally shot this week outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
The leading Democratic candidates, including Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani, had lots to say about antisemitism and the attack.
Identifying who will go from anger to violence is like "trying to find which piece of hay is going to become a needle," one expert said.
A solemn vigil was held outside the White House to remember Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, the young couple who worked together at the Israeli embassy in Washington and were fatally shot after an event at the Capital Jewish Museum.