2 Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed in Washington Shooting
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Two men are dead and another is hospitalized following a triple shooting late Friday night in Southeast D.C., police confirmed.
Israel’s embassy in the US has named the couple shot dead in Washington as Yaron and Sarah. Israeli media reports their full names are Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram. The victims “were in the prime of their lives,” the embassy posts on X . “A terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC,” it says.
Years before he allegedly shot and killed two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, Elias Rodriguez was an active member of left-wing groups in Chicago, protesting police violence and a proposed Amazon headquarters.
The body of Yaron Lischinsky, the Israeli embassy employee who was gunned down in an antisemitic attack in Washington, DC, Wednesday night, is expected to return to Israel on Friday, officials confirmed.
Authorities raid Elias Rodriguez's Chicago apartment after he allegedly killed two Israeli embassy workers outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C.
A man and a woman were shot and killed near an FBI office in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department confirmed to CBS News. The double-shooting occurred at around 9:15 p.m. local time near an FBI office building in the 300 block of F St., NW. Officers are still searching for the suspect.
The man and the woman were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum near Penn Quarter, Washington DC, and police have warned members of the public to avoid the area
Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Washington Jeanine Pirro announces charges during a news conference Thursday against a man accused of shooting two Israeli embassy workers in Washington, D.C.