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.

  • badlucknocooki@lemmings.world
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    The west is certainely to blame for the rwandan genocide. But at least they weren’t out there giving out machete while saying the tutsi deserved it.

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      The West? The colonial rulers used divide and conquer to divide these populations. However that was decades earlier and happened all over the world without leading to genocide every time.

      Africans have their own agency. They are able to commit genocide just like white people or actually all humans.

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        Bitch please I’m belgian. I fucking know about the rwanda genocide. We went there, told some good nger to watch for the bad nger to work for us and then bailed out when people got enraged.

        Isreali also have their own agency. Don’t work for a genocidal government and you’ll have one less reason to get shot.