Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead outside Jewish museum in Washington, DC
May 22, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #BenjaminNetanyahu #Israel
Two staff members of Israel’s embassy in the United States have been shot and kille
May 22, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #BenjaminNetanyahu #Israel
Two staff members of Israel’s embassy in the United States have been shot and killed in an attack outside a Jewish museum in the capital.
The deadly shooting occurred at about 9pm on Wednesday (01:00 GMT, Thursday) near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, according to authorities.
Pamela A Smith, the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, said authorities had detained a single suspect over the shooting, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, Illinois.
The Israeli foreign ministry named the two victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Washington, DC.
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