Two staff members at the Israeli embassy in Washington are shot dead near a Jewish museum.

The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Israeli president Isaac Herzog also called the shooting a “despicable antisemitic terror attack.”

    No. Elias Rodriquez had intel that these people were hiding a Hamas baby.