Update: The suspect, tentatively identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, Illinois, has been apprehended.
Rodriguez shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as he was taken into custody according to law enforcement.
Two people were fatally shot near the FBI’s Washington Field office on Wednesday night.
The fatal shooting happened just after 9 pm on the 300 block of F St NW.
According to reports, the two victims were Israeli embassy staff members. They were shot outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in a suspected terror attack.
Fox 5 DC reported that the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when the two unidentified victims were gunned down.
D.C. police are investigating after a man and a woman were shot and killed near an FBI office building Wednesday night.
What we know: Police say the double shooting happened around 9:15 p.m. near an FBI office building in the 300 block of F Street, NW.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a woman and a man who were both suffering from gunshot wounds. They are unconscious and not breathing. Homicide was called and the pair was pronounced dead.
President Trump commented on the fatal shootings.
“These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!” Trump said on Wednesday evening on Truth Social.
Video taken by an attendee at the Young Diplomats Reception at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night hosted by the American Jewish Committee’s D.C. Young Professional Board captured the moment when alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago according to police, was detained after shooting and killing two Israeli Embassy staffers just outside the museum, located in the 500 block of 3rd Street, NW, near the FBI field office for D.C.
Rodriguez is seen on video shouting as he was being detained. “Free, free Palestine,” in the same cadence as heard at communist-led protests on American college campuses. An eyewitness reported Rodriguez threw a red keffiyeh on the floor and also chanted, “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution.”
Josh Kraushaar, editor in chief of the Jewish Insider, reported a source saying the what turned out to be the alleged gunman entered the museum after the shooting, “from a witness: “After the shooting a guy came inside saying he saw it and needed water and a safe space, then whipped out a keffiyeh and yelled free Palestine a bunch before being escorted out by police.”
(Police later said Rodriguez showed police where he had ditched the gun after the shooting.)
Reza Chowdhury reported the alleged shooter Elias Rodriguez appears to be a member of the Chicago chapter of the communist front group Party for Socialism and Liberation.
The Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, told reporters at a press briefing led by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that the embassy staffers killed in the attack were a couple about to be engaged, and that the man had recently bought a ring to propose to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem. The ambassador also spoke about his phone conversation with President Trump.
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