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Video shows moment, the shooter outside the Jewish museum is steadfastly

The alleged shooter, who shot two employees of the Israeli embassy, ​​was recorded on the video when he was imprisoned when he called “Free, Free Palestine” moments after good Samaritans helped him before realizing that he was the murderer.

The suspect, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez, allegedly opened the fire and killed the couple on Wednesday evening shortly after 9 p.m. in Washington, DC.

The museum organized an event organized by the American Jewish Committee.

The alleged shooter, Elias Rodriguez, is suppressed by a security guard after entering the museum after the shootout. @Ktkali/Instagram

Rodriguez was seen by a security officer who wore a metropolitan police tactical vest as a bear, and urged himself to exit when two civilian population helps the police to help him take him in, which was taken up by witness Katie Kalisher and published on Instagram shows.

The guard secured the hands of the alleged shooter behind his back without a fight.

The guard can be heard that asked someone outside the camera whether he has cuffs after picking up his side.

The alleged shooter, whose arms are held behind his back both by the guard and the civilian, then begins to call “Free, Free Palestine” in the camera when he pulled out the door.

Before the museum, the suspect was supposedly a pistol of a group of four people before and back and down and off and crooked before it opened the fire, Pamela Smith, police chief of DC Metro, said during a press conference.

The guard secured the hands of the alleged shooter behind his back without a fight. @Ktkali/Instagram
Then he starts screaming in the camera “Free, Free Palestine” when he pulled out the door. @Ktkali/Instagram

Kalisher, who took part in the event for the reception of the young diplomats of the American Jewish Committee in the museum, was inside when the change of shooting took out and Rodriguez looked in “need”.

“We thought that he just liked it, needed help,” said Kalisher of the BBC alongside another witness, Yoni Kalin.

Kalin said that people were rushing inside to help the suspect and thought he needed help.

Witnesses said they had seen Rodriguez when they looked “desperate” after hearing the shooting. @Ktkali/Instagram

“People calmed him down, brought him water and took care of him,” said Kalin. “We knew little that he was someone who executed people with cold blood.”

Only when the police broke out and the suspect took out a red Keffiyeh that did she and others find that he was the alleged shooter.

Kalin said the suspect told the police that he was “unarmed” and committed the shootout for Gaza.

“I did that for Gaza. Free Palestine. There is only one solution, the Intifada Revolution”, and he just shouted “Free Palestine”, Kalin recalled.

Yoni Kalin (L) and Katie Kalisher remember the people who helped the alleged shooter before realizing that he was. BBC
The law enforcement agencies work in the scene after two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington were shot in Washington on Thursday, May 22, 2025, before the Jewish Museum of the Capital of the Jewish Museum in Washington. AP

Kalin also informed The Associated Press that the shooter had decided to target her event because it was “about humanitarian aid”.

“How can we help both people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we bring Muslims, Jews and Christians together to work together to actually help innocent people? And here he only murdered two people in cold blood,” said Kalin.

The Israeli embassy confirmed that the victims Yaron Lischinsky (28) and Sarah Milgrim were on X on Thursday.

The couple should work in Jerusalem next week before they were killed.

Yaron Lischinsky (R) and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim, both of whom work on the Israeli embassy, ​​were confirmed as the victim of the shootout. @yaron_li/x
A man with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center kneels in addition to emergency staff at the place where, on May 21, 2025, two Israeli employees near the Jewish Jewish Museum of the Jewish Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, were shot two Israeli employees. Reuters

LinkedIn said that Lischinsky had been a research assistant in the political department of the message since September 2022, according to LinkedIn.

Milgrim, who has received a degree in the Department of Public Diplomacy at the University of Kansas and American University since November 2023, according to her online profile.

President Trump condemned the fatal shootout and said the murders were made out of hatred and radicalism.

“These terrible DC murders, which are obviously based on anti -Semitism, now have to end, now! Hate and radicalism have no place in the USA,” Trump wrote about the social truth.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she was with the former judge Jeanine Pirro at the scene, who serves as a US lawyer in Washington and would pursue the case.

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