The suspect who is charged with murder of Israeli embassy booths

Elias Rodriguez, the man who is accused

The 31-year-old Rodriguez was charged with murder of foreign civil servants, a federal capital offense and several counts in connection with firearms and two cases of the first degree.

If he is convicted of one of the first two cases, he could face the death penalty. According to DC Law, a conviction due to the first degree murder has a minimum penalty of 30 years in prison and a maximum punishment behind bars.

Rodriguez waived his right to hear and is captured without binding while waiting for the process.

He was returned to court on June 18 because of a provisional hearing.

The shootout on Wednesday evening occurred during an event of the American Jewish Committee, which brought Jewish experts and members of the diplomatic community together.

According to the affidavit, one of the victims, Yaron Lischinsky, 31, was an Israeli citizen who had been granted “official guest status” by the US State Department.

The other victim, Sarah Milgrim, 26, was also employed by the Israeli message.

The young couple should be engaged.

According to an affidavit, monitoring material showed a suspect that wore a blue jacket with a hood, a large dark backpack and blue pants and approached the couple from behind when they were about to cross a cross.

The investigators say that Rodriguez had drawn a 9 -mm gun and opened the fire without provocation.

After the victims had collapsed, he came closer and continued to fire, said the affidavit.

Milgrim tried to crawl away, but Rodriguez continued to shot at her.

The investigators say that Rodriguez had a break for reloading and then shot back on them before they fled to the entrance to the museum.

The authorities recovered 21 mussel covers, an empty pistol and a thrown away magazine at the crime scene.

A preliminary autopsy found that Milgrim suffered from several firing wounds. It was removed from the District of Columbia's Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DCFEMS) to the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia.

It was declared dead on Wednesday at 9:35 p.m.

Autopsy results are still pending.

Lischinsky was declared dead by DCFEMS at 9:14 p.m. on Wednesday. His autopsier results are still pending.

Rodriguez did not resist the arrest. When members of the first district of the Metropolitan Police Department arrived at 9:08 p.m. and approached Rodriguez, he allegedly said: “I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza. I am unarmed” and later called “Free Palestine” when he was arrested.

The investigators said they had spoken to witnesses who reported that the suspect was seen with a red Keffiyeh, a headgear that was often associated with Palestinian demonstrators.

In an interview with the law enforcement authorities, Rodriguez reported reported an admiration for a demonstrator who had revised himself in 2024 outside the Israeli embassy by bravely describing the law and said that the individual was a “martyr”.

The affidavit said Rodriguez told the authorities that he bought a ticket for the Israeli event three hours before the opening of Lischinsky and Milgrim.

According to the federal authorities, Rodriguez flew to Washington DC the day before the Chicago shooting from Chicago and legally transports the firearm used in the attack as a tested luggage.

The weapon was legally bought in Illinois in 2020.

On Thursday at a press actization on Thursday, the preliminary US lawyer of the District of Washington Jeanine Pirro said the community “staggered due to the actions of a person”.

“Two families will now mourn dreams that will never be realized,” she said.

“And while I'm talking, there is a person who is presented in court and charged with various crimes.

Thirty-one-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, Illinois, is now charged with complaints after his first appearance in front of the American judge Matthew Sharp. “

Rodriguez is charged with the murder of foreign civil servants because one of the victims was of Israeli citizens and was classified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the “official guest” of the United States.

He is also accused of causing the death of a person by using a firearm, a firearm during a violent crime and two first -degree murder cases.