2 Israeli embassy employees who were killed by DC at the shootout outside the Jewish Capital Museum

WASHINGTON – – Two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, who were fatally shot on Wednesday evening after leaving an event in a Jewish museum.

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Embassy staff identified

What we know:

The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Lischinsky served as a research assistant, while Milgrim coordinated visits and missions to Israel.

The victims left an event in the Capital Jewish Museum when a suspect turned to their group and opened the fire, Pamela Smith, police chief of Metropolitan, said on Wednesday at a press conference.

Suspicious after shooting imprisoned

The suspect Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, went up and down before shooting in front of the museum and then entered the building where the event security held it, said Smith.

When he was taken into custody, the suspect sang “free, free Palestine,” said Smith. She said that the investigators do not believe that there is a continuing threat in the community.

The shootout occurred when Israel started a new large offensive in the middle of his ongoing war with the Hamas in the Gaza Strip.