Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.

The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

  • WeekendClock@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    148·
    1 day ago

    You know not all embassy staff are ambassadors from Israel right?

    You can work at an embassy and be a US citizen.

    Which one of them was.

    • bdonvrA
      207·
      23 hours ago

      That’s even worse then. Not even the excuse of growing up there to fall back on. They chose to work there still.

      • WeekendClock@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        711·
        21 hours ago

        So you condone the killing of a person because they happen to work somewhere?

        Odd take but ok.

        • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
          101·
          14 hours ago

          Would you be making this post if they had been working for the Third Reich?

          Israel is literally committing genocide. Working for the Israeli government makes you complicit with their crimes. Yes, it is completely morally acceptable to kill people who actively choose to materially support genocide.

          • WeekendClock@lemmy.worldBanned from community
            35·
            14 hours ago

            Much of Germany was working for the Third Reich, if you don’t recall from history.

            Shooting random staffers doesn’t fight the Third Reich leadership, you just murdered some random people.

            • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
              61·
              12 hours ago

              Unh huh, because that’s what the US so famously did in WWII, target only the Nazi leadership while refusing to attack anyone else. Very definitely a great way to defeat facism.

              • WeekendClock@lemmy.worldBanned from community
                25·
                12 hours ago

                Yep nuance flies right over your head too.

                Much of Germany had NSDAP party affiliation because of their role in society or a wanting to have the benefits of social movement.

                Shooting some random accountant or whatever isn’t going to win the war.

                But sure, murder these two staffer because that’ll really help Palestine win. Dumbass.

        • bdonvrA
          82·
          20 hours ago

          If you conveniently forget to mention where it is exactly they happen to work, of course it sounds silly.

            • bdonvrA
              111·
              20 hours ago

              Can we circle around to the nuance thing? These were Embassy staffers.

              And whatever innocent or less implicated person who might have died in an attack such as this would be the fault of the Israeli state.