2 Israeli embassy employees in the DC Jewish Museum – NBC4 Washington

What to know?

• Two employees of the Israeli embassy were shot on Wednesday evening before the Jewish Museum of the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, when they left an event organized by the American Jewish Committee.
• The Israeli embassy in the United States identified the victims of the shootout as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. The Israeli ambassador Yechiel Head said they were a young couple who got engaged.
• The suspect is identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago. The authorities believe that he is the only actor in crimes.
• The video shows the suspect who writes “free, free Palestine” when it was taken into custody shortly after the shootout.
• The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he was “shocked” by the “terrible, anti -Semitic” shootout, while US President Donald Trump said on social media: “This terrible DC murder, which obviously is based on anti -Semitism, must now end!”