Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were Israeli embassy workers who were killed at DC shooting

Sarah Milgrim's parents did not know that Yaron Lischinsky proposed her until the couple had been killed by a shooter in Washington, DC on Wednesday evening.

Her parents had assumed that marriage was in the picture. Mrs. Milgrim, who in Prairie Village, Kan. Mr. Lischinsky, a researcher at the message, had met her parents several times.

“He was incredible,” said Ms. Milgrim's father, Robert Milgrim, in an interview. “He was very similar to Sarah: passionate, extremely intelligent, dedicates what he does, always on the matter of what is right.”

A few months ago, Ms. Milgrim, 26, told her parents that she met his family in Jerusalem for the first time with Mr. Lischinsky, 30. What they didn't know and would only learn after shooting is that he had bought a engagement ring before the trip.

After the couple had to fly to Israel on Sunday, Ms. Milgrim's mother Nancy Milgrim, on Friday by Prairie Village, a suburb of Kansas City, to travel to Washington to take care of her daughter's dog, a Goldendoodle named Andy.

On Wednesday evening, Mr. Milgrim set up on the bed when news appeared on his cell phone and a deadly shootout in Washington described before an event for the American Jewish committee, in which his daughter was a scholarship holder. He immediately called the FBI and the local police station, but did not provide any information.