Two employees of the Israeli embassy, a man and a woman, were shot dead on Wednesday night when they left the Jewish Capital Museum in Washington, DC, the authorities said. A suspect is in custody.
At a night press conference, the head of Metropolitan Police Pamela A. Smith said the shooting was reported at 9:08 pm local time outside the museum, which is near a FBI field office.
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Smith said that the suspect, identified as Elias Rodríguez, 30, or Chicago, Illinois, was initially “observed walking from one side outside the museum” before approaching a group of four people, “produced a gun,” and shot the two victims.
The officers who responded arrived at the scene to find the victims with gunshot wounds, unconscious and without breathing, the Department of Medical Services of DC Fire and Emergency told CBS.
“We believe that the shooting was committed by a single suspect that is now in custody,” said Smith.
Two sources of application of the law told CBS News that the shooting seems to have been an objective attack.
The suspect entered the museum immediately after the shooting and was arrested for the security of the museum, police chief said.
“The suspect identified where he ruled out the gun, and that weapon has recovered,” said Smith, added that “he implied that he committed the crime.”
Smith said that “sang” free and free Palestine “, while he was in custody.”
Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the United States, told journalists that the two victims were about to commit.
“The couple who was granted tonight in Free Palestine was a young couple about to commit,” Leiter said. “The young man bought a ring this week with the intention of proposing his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem. They are a beautiful couple who came to enjoy one night at the Washington Cultural Center.”
Leiter said he spoke with President Trump on the phone after the shooting, as well as the United States Attorney Pam Bondi, who attended the press conference and before said she responded to the shooting scene.
“I talked to the president of the United States several times tonight,” Bondi said. “On behalf of the president, his prayers are with all of us, all the Jewish community, all of us in Washington, DC”
The mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, said the DC Police and the FBI will investigate.
“We will not tolerate anti -Semitism,” Bowser said, and then added that “the role of the FBI, of course, as always, when there is any possibility of a terrorist act, or acts motivated by hatred or other bias, the FBI is tired investigations.”
The Secretary of National Security Kristi Name wrote in X that “two employees of the Israeli embassy were meaningless tonight near the Jewish museum in Washington DC”.
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, also wrote on social networks that “my team and I have been lyrics in the shooting tonight in the DC center outside the Jewish Capital Museum and near the Washington Field Office.” Patel said the FBI was working with the Metropolitan Police in the investigation.
“There is no threat to public security,” the FBI field office wrote in Washington in X.