The killing of the Jewish couple in DC as a hate crime, says FBI, says FBI

According to the FBI, the granting of two Israeli employees near the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, is examined as hate crimes.

Steven Jensen, the deputy director, who is responsible for the FBI Washington Field Office, said in a press conference that the Federal Society of the Federation works together with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in order to “investigate the connections to potential terrorism or motivation on the basis of a crime on bias base”.

The Mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, organized the press conference together with the law enforcement authorities, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the ambassador of Israel in the USA, Yechiel Head and others.

Two Israeli diplomats were shot that were killed during the event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC

She repeated Jensen's comments and said that “the role of the FBI, of course, as always, if there is a possibility of a terrorist trade or is motivated by hate or other bias, the FBI will carry out these investigations.

“We will not tolerate terrorist files,” she said during the press conference. “We won't tolerate anti -Semitism.”

The victims were identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a couple who both worked at the message. They were shot on Wednesday at 9:08 p.m.

Lischinsky was born in Israel and grew up in Germany. His father is Jewish and his mother is a Christian.

Milgrim was an American employee of the message.

Head said that the two victims were together and on the edge of the engagement, and Lischinsky “bought a ring this week to suggest his girlfriend in Jerusalem next week”.

The US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi and the Israeli ambassador to the US Yechiel Head of the US speak on Wednesday, May 21st, in Washington, DC (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

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The event in the museum was for young Jewish specialists who work in foreign policy.

According to MPD boss Pamela Smith, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, who went up and down during the event, went up and down during the event, and screamed “Free, Free Palestine” while he was in police custody. The suspect's weapon was recovered.

“The last night's terrorist act has the full attention of her FBI,” said the deputy FBI director Dan Bongino on Thursday morning in one post on X. “Goals Anti -Semitic acts of violence are usually carried out by spineless, well -known ceiling. And the punishments will be hard if we tighten this examination and take additional leads. FBI headquarters go. “

Jason Pack, a retired FBI supervisory Special Agent, told Fox News Digital that “all signs of a hate-driven action”.

“At the moment, the FBI, the diplomatic security service and the DC police are going through the entire digital life of the suspect -its telephone, its social media and contacts -to find out whether this was a single action or something bigger,” he said.

Elias Rodriguez, the 30-year-old suspect who was accused (Instagram/@shinewithisrael)

“Whether it is officially classified as a domestic terrorism lies with prosecutors, but the motif and the surrounding area – a Jewish museum, Israeli diplomats – are difficult to ignore the larger message behind it,” he said.

Pack said that the common terrorism -Sksk Force of the FBI takes the lead in the investigation.

Pack also said that the FBI, although it looks as if the suspect had acted alone, that the FBI will dig his heels to determine whether someone else knew the plan or whether they were encouraged to do an attack by anyone.

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Fox News Digital turned to the FBI on Thursday morning.

Alex Nitzberg and Elizabeth Pritchett from Fox News contributed to this report.