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Police identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, a Chicago man in his early 30s, in a shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers.
When Adam Zimmerman chaperoned his son's fourth-grade class field trip to the natural history museum in Washington on Wednesday, he didn't give a second thought to security.
The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were a couple about to become engaged, said Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter.
WASHINGTON — As D.C. continues to grapple with Wednesday night’s violent shooting that left a couple dead in front of the Capital Jewish Museum, a memorial for the two Israeli Embassy staffers killed has been growing since the shooting.
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Religion News Service on MSNTwo Israeli embassy staffers killed in shooting outside Capital Jewish Museum in WashingtonMetropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said the suspect, who she identified as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, entered the museum and was detained by security for the event. He chanted “Free,
Midwest head of Anti-Defamation League says antisemitic rhetoric “is a major problem here in Chicago,” following fatal shootings allegedly by Chicago man.
Identifying who will go from anger to violence is like "trying to find which piece of hay is going to become a needle," one expert said.
A solemn vigil was held outside the White House to remember Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, the young couple who worked together at the Israeli embassy in Washington and were fatally shot after an event at the Capital Jewish Museum.