Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
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00:00Two Israeli embassy employees based in Washington, D.C. were shot and killed outside the Capitol Jewish Museum late Wednesday night.
00:08We are about a block away from where that shooting took place.
00:11As you can see, several police cars are blocking off the entire area.
00:16And numerous reporters with outlets from around the world are still here reporting live.
00:21We are very close to give you a sense of where we're at to an FBI field office several blocks away from the U.S. Capitol.
00:27Numerous law enforcement agencies from the area responded to the shooting, including Attorney General Pam Bondi,
00:33who said during a press conference that the suspect will be, quote, prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
00:40All of our federal agencies will work hand in hand with you, Chief, as we have done, and you, Mayor, to do everything we can to keep our citizens safe.
00:50The suspect who was detained is 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago.
00:55After the shooting outside the museum, he entered inside and then was detained.
01:00Two people who were inside the museum at the time told the Associated Press that they heard at least 10 gunshots.
01:06Afterward, they saw the shooter inside the museum.
01:10He was wearing a red keffiyeh, which is a traditional Middle Eastern headdress.
01:14And while he was being detained, they told us that he shouted, Free Palestine.
01:17The suspect chanted, Free, Free Palestine, while in custody.
01:23Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Mike Herzog, told Israel Army Radio that the woman who was killed was an American employee of the embassy, and the man was Israeli.
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