Jewish Museum Murders
Suspected Shooter Screams ‘Free Palestine’ …
As Police Arrest Him
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Fox 5 DC / Katie Kalisher
Two Israeli Embassy staff have been shot to dying Wednesday by a gunman on the Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. — and the arrest of the suspect was caught on dramatic video.
Test it out … The alleged shooter — recognized as Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, Illinois — is grabbed by a few cops inside a constructing on Wednesday night time.
One of many officers slaps the cuffs on Elias, who begins screaming, “Free free Palestine.” Each officers then escort him by means of an exit door as witnesses stare in shock, with one horrified lady seen overlaying her mouth.
The clip then cuts to a swarm of law enforcement officials frisking Elias exterior the constructing as he continues to yell one thing that is indistinguishable.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser held a press convention after the lethal assault with Police Chief Pamela A. Smith and U.S. Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi.
They instructed reporters the 2 Israeli Embassy staffers have been murdered exterior the Capital Jewish Museum, the place the American Jewish Committee was holding an occasion final night.
CNN reported Elias instructed officers who responded to the scene he allegedly “did it for Gaza.”
Yaron and Sarah have been our pals and colleagues. They have been within the prime of their lives.
This night, a terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an occasion on the Capital Jewish Museum in DC.
Your complete embassy employees is heartbroken and devastated by their homicide. No phrases… pic.twitter.com/2HytKDp8Fr
— Embassy of Israel to the USA (@IsraelinUSA) Could 22, 2025
@IsraelinUSA
Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. launched an announcement, saying the victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, have been “a younger couple about to be engaged.”
President Donald Trump additionally weighed in, saying, “hatred and Radicalism haven’t any place within the USA.”
As you realize … the Israelis and Hamas militants — who rule the Palestinians within the Gaza Strip — reignited their decades-old struggle in October 2023. That is when Hamas launched a sneak assault on the Nova music pageant in southern Israel, killing greater than a thousand Jews and kidnapping dozens extra.
