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Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, told police he did it
for Gaza
Elias Rodriguez shot victims in the back at close range, court documents
say; FBI investigating his apparent writings and far-left political >affiliations
By Luke Tress and Agencies
23 May 2025, 3:01 am
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Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the >Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the >Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
WASHINGTON Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with killing two Israeli >embassy staffers in Washington, DC, approached police on the scene after
the shooting and told them, I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, >according to a court document filed on Thursday.
Rodriguez allegedly murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside
an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. Lischinsky and >Milgrim were a couple, and Lischinsky was planning to propose in
Jersualem next week.
The US Justice Department said Rodriguez has been charged with two
counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the
murder of foreign officials.
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An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in support of the criminal complaint
said that as police escorted Rodriguez from the building, he shouted,
Free Palestine.
The document said police reviewed security footage showing Rodriguez
walking past the victims outside the museum, then turning, pulling a
firearm from his waistband, and shooting them in the back.
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After the victims fell to the ground, he approached them and fired
several more times, as Milgrim attempted to crawl away from him. Milgrim
then sat up while Rodriguez reloaded, and he shot her again, the video
shows, according to the affidavit.
Investigators recovered 21 empty shell cases and a 9mm handgun from the
scene that matched a firearm Rodriguez purchased in Illinois in 2020. He
flew from Chicago to Virginia with the firearm in his checked baggage,
the affidavit said. He had declared the firearm for the flight.
Yaron Lischinsky, right, and his partner Sarah Milgrim, both employees
of the Israeli Embassy in the US, were killed in a shooting in
Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy
in Washington)
Rodriguez later told detectives that he admired Aaron Bushnell, an >anti-Israel activist who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last
year in protest, calling Bushnell a martyr. Rodriguez, a 30-year-old
from Chicago, also said he had bought a ticket to the event at the
museum three hours before it started.
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This brutal, antisemitic violence has no place in our country or
anywhere in civilization, said US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. We
will follow the facts and secure the most severe possible punishment for
the perpetrator of this heinous crime, which robbed two wonderful young >people of a bright future together.
The case is being investigated by the FBI and Washingtons Metropolitan >Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the US Attorneys Office
for the District of Columbia.
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter makes remarks at the Capital >Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on May
22, 2025. The Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside an
event at the museum on May 21, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA) >Israels ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the attacker was
inside the event before the attack.
He milled around inside the event. We still dont know exactly what he
said, but he said enough that they removed him, Leiter said at a press >briefing at the scene of the attack. He went outside, waited for
embassy workers to come out, and shot them.
Three others escaped the shooting unharmed, Leiter said.
The person who shot these two young people dead last night shouted
Free, free Palestine. This was done in the name of a political agenda
to eradicate the State of Israel, he said. The State of Israel is now >fighting a war on seven fronts. This is the eighth front in the war to >demonize, to delegitimize, to eradicate the right of the State of Israel.
Advertisement
Handwritten notes left at the site of the shooting of two Israeli
Embassy staffers outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish
Museum on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
North America/Getty Images via AFP)
FBI and police investigators are poring over apparent writings and
political affiliations of the suspect.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on social media that
investigators were aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the >suspect and hoped to soon have updates regarding their authenticity.
Bonginos statement appeared to refer to a manifesto signed with
Rodriguezs name that was posted to an anonymous X account on Wednesday
night shortly before the shooting.
Posted with the title Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home, it
condemned Israels killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians since
the October 2023 Hamas attacks, and discussed the morality of armed
action.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the bloodshed an act of terror,
although Bondi told reporters that authorities believe the suspect acted >alone.
Investigators are also delving into the apparent political affiliations
of the suspect, who worked for a healthcare nonprofit and was believed
to have had past ties to far-left groups.
At his first appearance in court on Thursday, the suspect waived his
right to a detention hearing, and a preliminary hearing in the case was
set for June 18.
Rodriguez said little during the proceeding except to answer, I do to >questions from a federal magistrate judge about whether he understood
his rights.
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FBI agents were seen at his apartment in Chicago on Thursday, where law >enforcement blocked off the street.
Rodriguez was once affiliated with a far-left group in Chicago, the
Party for Socialism and Liberation, according to a post from the group
on X. The group said that Rodriguez had a brief association with a PSL
branch that ended in 2017 and that they knew of no contact with him in
more than seven years.
Rodriguez was also identified in a 2018 local news report as a member of
the Chicago branch of a national group called ANSWER, an acronym for Act
Now to Stop War and End Racism, which has organized demonstrations in >solidarity with Palestinians.
Rodriguez worked at the healthcare nonprofit American Osteopathic
Information Association, the organization confirmed in a statement
expressing sympathy for the victims.
He had also worked as an oral history researcher at The HistoryMakers, a >nonprofit dedicated to preserving African American stories, according to
a now-deleted biography on the groups website.
Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the
University of Illinois Chicago with an English degree. He previously
worked as a content writer for commercial and noncommercial technology
firms, the deleted page said.
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Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, told police he ‘did it
for Gaza’
Elias Rodriguez shot victims in the back at close range, court documents
say; FBI investigating his apparent writings and far-left political
affiliations
By Luke Tress and Agencies
23 May 2025, 3:01 am
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Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the
Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts
'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the
Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts
'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
WASHINGTON — Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with killing two Israeli
embassy staffers in Washington, DC, approached police on the scene after
the shooting and told them, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” >> according to a court document filed on Thursday.
Rodriguez allegedly murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside
an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. Lischinsky and
Milgrim were a couple, and Lischinsky was planning to propose in
Jersualem next week.
The US Justice Department said Rodriguez has been charged with two
counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the
murder of foreign officials.
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Keep Watching
An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in support of the criminal complaint
said that as police escorted Rodriguez from the building, he shouted,
“Free Palestine.”
The document said police reviewed security footage showing Rodriguez
walking past the victims outside the museum, then turning, pulling a
firearm from his waistband, and shooting them in the back.
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After the victims fell to the ground, he approached them and fired
several more times, as Milgrim attempted to crawl away from him. Milgrim
then sat up while Rodriguez reloaded, and he shot her again, the video
shows, according to the affidavit.
Investigators recovered 21 empty shell cases and a 9mm handgun from the
scene that matched a firearm Rodriguez purchased in Illinois in 2020. He
flew from Chicago to Virginia with the firearm in his checked baggage,
the affidavit said. He had declared the firearm for the flight.
Yaron Lischinsky, right, and his partner Sarah Milgrim, both employees
of the Israeli Embassy in the US, were killed in a shooting in
Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy
in Washington)
Rodriguez later told detectives that he admired Aaron Bushnell, an
anti-Israel activist who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last
year in protest, calling Bushnell a “martyr.” Rodriguez, a 30-year-old >>from Chicago, also said he had bought a ticket to the event at the
museum three hours before it started.
Advertisement
“This brutal, antisemitic violence has no place in our country or
anywhere in civilization,” said US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We
will follow the facts and secure the most severe possible punishment for
the perpetrator of this heinous crime, which robbed two wonderful young
people of a bright future together.”
The case is being investigated by the FBI and Washington’s Metropolitan
Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office
for the District of Columbia.
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter makes remarks at the Capital
Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on May
22, 2025. The Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside an
event at the museum on May 21, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)
Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the attacker was
inside the event before the attack.
“He milled around inside the event. We still don’t know exactly what he >> said, but he said enough that they removed him,” Leiter said at a press
briefing at the scene of the attack. “He went outside, waited for
embassy workers to come out, and shot them.”
Three others escaped the shooting unharmed, Leiter said.
“The person who shot these two young people dead last night shouted
‘Free, free Palestine.’ This was done in the name of a political agenda >> to eradicate the State of Israel,” he said. “The State of Israel is now >> fighting a war on seven fronts. This is the eighth front in the war to
demonize, to delegitimize, to eradicate the right of the State of Israel.” >>
Advertisement
Handwritten notes left at the site of the shooting of two Israeli
Embassy staffers outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish
Museum on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
North America/Getty Images via AFP)
FBI and police investigators are poring over apparent writings and
political affiliations of the suspect.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on social media that
investigators were “aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the
suspect” and hoped to soon have updates regarding their authenticity.
Bongino’s statement appeared to refer to a manifesto signed with
Rodriguez’s name that was posted to an anonymous X account on Wednesday
night shortly before the shooting.
Posted with the title “Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home,” it
condemned Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians since
the October 2023 Hamas attacks, and discussed the morality of “armed”
action.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the bloodshed an “act of terror,”
although Bondi told reporters that authorities believe the suspect acted
alone.
Investigators are also delving into the apparent political affiliations
of the suspect, who worked for a healthcare nonprofit and was believed
to have had past ties to far-left groups.
At his first appearance in court on Thursday, the suspect waived his
right to a detention hearing, and a preliminary hearing in the case was
set for June 18.
Rodriguez said little during the proceeding except to answer, “I do” to >> questions from a federal magistrate judge about whether he understood
his rights.
Advertisement
FBI agents were seen at his apartment in Chicago on Thursday, where law
enforcement blocked off the street.
Rodriguez was once affiliated with a far-left group in Chicago, the
Party for Socialism and Liberation, according to a post from the group
on X. The group said that Rodriguez had a brief association with a PSL
branch that ended in 2017 and that they knew of no contact with him in
more than seven years.
Rodriguez was also identified in a 2018 local news report as a member of
the Chicago branch of a national group called ANSWER, an acronym for Act
Now to Stop War and End Racism, which has organized demonstrations in
solidarity with Palestinians.
Rodriguez worked at the healthcare nonprofit American Osteopathic
Information Association, the organization confirmed in a statement
expressing sympathy for the victims.
He had also worked as an oral history researcher at The HistoryMakers, a
nonprofit dedicated to preserving African American stories, according to
a now-deleted biography on the group’s website.
Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the
University of Illinois Chicago with an English degree. He previously
worked as a content writer for commercial and noncommercial technology
firms, the deleted page said.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies ofYou got that right!
Israel on all "eight fronts," including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah
now but also all others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/washington-shooting-suspect-charged-with-murder-told-police-he-did-it-for-gaza/
Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, told police he did it
for Gaza
Elias Rodriguez shot victims in the back at close range, court documents >>> say; FBI investigating his apparent writings and far-left political
affiliations
By Luke Tress and Agencies
23 May 2025, 3:01 am
Share
14
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the
Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the
Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
WASHINGTON Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with killing two Israeli
embassy staffers in Washington, DC, approached police on the scene after >>> the shooting and told them, I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, >>> according to a court document filed on Thursday.
Rodriguez allegedly murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside
an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. Lischinsky and >>> Milgrim were a couple, and Lischinsky was planning to propose in
Jersualem next week.
The US Justice Department said Rodriguez has been charged with two
counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the
murder of foreign officials.
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Keep Watching
An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in support of the criminal complaint
said that as police escorted Rodriguez from the building, he shouted,
Free Palestine.
The document said police reviewed security footage showing Rodriguez
walking past the victims outside the museum, then turning, pulling a
firearm from his waistband, and shooting them in the back.
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After the victims fell to the ground, he approached them and fired
several more times, as Milgrim attempted to crawl away from him. Milgrim >>> then sat up while Rodriguez reloaded, and he shot her again, the video
shows, according to the affidavit.
Investigators recovered 21 empty shell cases and a 9mm handgun from the
scene that matched a firearm Rodriguez purchased in Illinois in 2020. He >>> flew from Chicago to Virginia with the firearm in his checked baggage,
the affidavit said. He had declared the firearm for the flight.
Yaron Lischinsky, right, and his partner Sarah Milgrim, both employees
of the Israeli Embassy in the US, were killed in a shooting in
Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy
in Washington)
Rodriguez later told detectives that he admired Aaron Bushnell, an
anti-Israel activist who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last >>> year in protest, calling Bushnell a martyr. Rodriguez, a 30-year-old >>>from Chicago, also said he had bought a ticket to the event at the
museum three hours before it started.
Advertisement
This brutal, antisemitic violence has no place in our country or
anywhere in civilization, said US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. We
will follow the facts and secure the most severe possible punishment for >>> the perpetrator of this heinous crime, which robbed two wonderful young
people of a bright future together.
The case is being investigated by the FBI and Washingtons Metropolitan
Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the US Attorneys Office
for the District of Columbia.
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter makes remarks at the Capital >>> Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on May
22, 2025. The Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside an
event at the museum on May 21, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA) >>> Israels ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the attacker was
inside the event before the attack.
He milled around inside the event. We still dont know exactly what he
said, but he said enough that they removed him, Leiter said at a press
briefing at the scene of the attack. He went outside, waited for
embassy workers to come out, and shot them.
Three others escaped the shooting unharmed, Leiter said.
The person who shot these two young people dead last night shouted
Free, free Palestine. This was done in the name of a political agenda
to eradicate the State of Israel, he said. The State of Israel is now
fighting a war on seven fronts. This is the eighth front in the war to
demonize, to delegitimize, to eradicate the right of the State of Israel. >>>
Advertisement
Handwritten notes left at the site of the shooting of two Israeli
Embassy staffers outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish
Museum on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
North America/Getty Images via AFP)
FBI and police investigators are poring over apparent writings and
political affiliations of the suspect.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on social media that
investigators were aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the
suspect and hoped to soon have updates regarding their authenticity.
Bonginos statement appeared to refer to a manifesto signed with
Rodriguezs name that was posted to an anonymous X account on Wednesday
night shortly before the shooting.
Posted with the title Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home, it
condemned Israels killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians since
the October 2023 Hamas attacks, and discussed the morality of armed
action.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the bloodshed an act of terror,
although Bondi told reporters that authorities believe the suspect acted >>> alone.
Investigators are also delving into the apparent political affiliations
of the suspect, who worked for a healthcare nonprofit and was believed
to have had past ties to far-left groups.
At his first appearance in court on Thursday, the suspect waived his
right to a detention hearing, and a preliminary hearing in the case was
set for June 18.
Rodriguez said little during the proceeding except to answer, I do to
questions from a federal magistrate judge about whether he understood
his rights.
Advertisement
FBI agents were seen at his apartment in Chicago on Thursday, where law
enforcement blocked off the street.
Rodriguez was once affiliated with a far-left group in Chicago, the
Party for Socialism and Liberation, according to a post from the group
on X. The group said that Rodriguez had a brief association with a PSL
branch that ended in 2017 and that they knew of no contact with him in
more than seven years.
Rodriguez was also identified in a 2018 local news report as a member of >>> the Chicago branch of a national group called ANSWER, an acronym for Act >>> Now to Stop War and End Racism, which has organized demonstrations in
solidarity with Palestinians.
Rodriguez worked at the healthcare nonprofit American Osteopathic
Information Association, the organization confirmed in a statement
expressing sympathy for the victims.
He had also worked as an oral history researcher at The HistoryMakers, a >>> nonprofit dedicated to preserving African American stories, according to >>> a now-deleted biography on the groups website.
Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the
University of Illinois Chicago with an English degree. He previously
worked as a content writer for commercial and noncommercial technology
firms, the deleted page said.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel on all "eight fronts," including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah
now but also all others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
You got that right!
If Elias Rodriguez has any problem with the National Alliance, the
White Aryan Resistance, and the Stormfront White Nationalist Community,
it is ONLY because he considers them to be rival gangs.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
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Michael Ejercito wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/washington-shooting-suspect-charged-with-murder-told-police-he-did-it-for-gaza/
Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, told police he ‘did it >>>> for Gaza’
Elias Rodriguez shot victims in the back at close range, court documents >>>> say; FBI investigating his apparent writings and far-left political
affiliations
By Luke Tress and Agencies
23 May 2025, 3:01 am
Share
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Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the >>>> Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington, >>>> DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance >>>> with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the >>>> Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington, >>>> DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance >>>> with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
WASHINGTON — Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with killing two Israeli >>>> embassy staffers in Washington, DC, approached police on the scene after >>>> the shooting and told them, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,”
according to a court document filed on Thursday.
Rodriguez allegedly murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside >>>> an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. Lischinsky and >>>> Milgrim were a couple, and Lischinsky was planning to propose in
Jersualem next week.
The US Justice Department said Rodriguez has been charged with two
counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the >>>> murder of foreign officials.
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An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in support of the criminal complaint >>>> said that as police escorted Rodriguez from the building, he shouted,
“Free Palestine.”
The document said police reviewed security footage showing Rodriguez
walking past the victims outside the museum, then turning, pulling a
firearm from his waistband, and shooting them in the back.
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After the victims fell to the ground, he approached them and fired
several more times, as Milgrim attempted to crawl away from him. Milgrim >>>> then sat up while Rodriguez reloaded, and he shot her again, the video >>>> shows, according to the affidavit.
Investigators recovered 21 empty shell cases and a 9mm handgun from the >>>> scene that matched a firearm Rodriguez purchased in Illinois in 2020. He >>>> flew from Chicago to Virginia with the firearm in his checked baggage, >>>> the affidavit said. He had declared the firearm for the flight.
Yaron Lischinsky, right, and his partner Sarah Milgrim, both employees >>>> of the Israeli Embassy in the US, were killed in a shooting in
Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy >>>> in Washington)
Rodriguez later told detectives that he admired Aaron Bushnell, an
anti-Israel activist who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last >>>> year in protest, calling Bushnell a “martyr.” Rodriguez, a 30-year-old >>> >from Chicago, also said he had bought a ticket to the event at the
museum three hours before it started.
Advertisement
“This brutal, antisemitic violence has no place in our country or
anywhere in civilization,” said US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We >>>> will follow the facts and secure the most severe possible punishment for >>>> the perpetrator of this heinous crime, which robbed two wonderful young >>>> people of a bright future together.”
The case is being investigated by the FBI and Washington’s Metropolitan >>>> Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office >>>> for the District of Columbia.
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter makes remarks at the Capital >>>> Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on May
22, 2025. The Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside an >>>> event at the museum on May 21, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA) >>>> Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the attacker was >>>> inside the event before the attack.
“He milled around inside the event. We still don’t know exactly what he
said, but he said enough that they removed him,” Leiter said at a press >>>> briefing at the scene of the attack. “He went outside, waited for
embassy workers to come out, and shot them.”
Three others escaped the shooting unharmed, Leiter said.
“The person who shot these two young people dead last night shouted
‘Free, free Palestine.’ This was done in the name of a political agenda
to eradicate the State of Israel,” he said. “The State of Israel is now
fighting a war on seven fronts. This is the eighth front in the war to >>>> demonize, to delegitimize, to eradicate the right of the State of Israel.”
Advertisement
Handwritten notes left at the site of the shooting of two Israeli
Embassy staffers outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish
Museum on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images >>>> North America/Getty Images via AFP)
FBI and police investigators are poring over apparent writings and
political affiliations of the suspect.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on social media that
investigators were “aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the >>>> suspect” and hoped to soon have updates regarding their authenticity. >>>>
Bongino’s statement appeared to refer to a manifesto signed with
Rodriguez’s name that was posted to an anonymous X account on Wednesday >>>> night shortly before the shooting.
Posted with the title “Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home,” it
condemned Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians since >>>> the October 2023 Hamas attacks, and discussed the morality of “armed” >>>> action.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the bloodshed an “act of terror,”
although Bondi told reporters that authorities believe the suspect acted >>>> alone.
Investigators are also delving into the apparent political affiliations >>>> of the suspect, who worked for a healthcare nonprofit and was believed >>>> to have had past ties to far-left groups.
At his first appearance in court on Thursday, the suspect waived his
right to a detention hearing, and a preliminary hearing in the case was >>>> set for June 18.
Rodriguez said little during the proceeding except to answer, “I do” to
questions from a federal magistrate judge about whether he understood
his rights.
Advertisement
FBI agents were seen at his apartment in Chicago on Thursday, where law >>>> enforcement blocked off the street.
Rodriguez was once affiliated with a far-left group in Chicago, the
Party for Socialism and Liberation, according to a post from the group >>>> on X. The group said that Rodriguez had a brief association with a PSL >>>> branch that ended in 2017 and that they knew of no contact with him in >>>> more than seven years.
Rodriguez was also identified in a 2018 local news report as a member of >>>> the Chicago branch of a national group called ANSWER, an acronym for Act >>>> Now to Stop War and End Racism, which has organized demonstrations in
solidarity with Palestinians.
Rodriguez worked at the healthcare nonprofit American Osteopathic
Information Association, the organization confirmed in a statement
expressing sympathy for the victims.
He had also worked as an oral history researcher at The HistoryMakers, a >>>> nonprofit dedicated to preserving African American stories, according to >>>> a now-deleted biography on the group’s website.
Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the
University of Illinois Chicago with an English degree. He previously
worked as a content writer for commercial and noncommercial technology >>>> firms, the deleted page said.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel on all "eight fronts," including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah
now but also all others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
You got that right!
If Elias Rodriguez has any problem with the National Alliance, the
White Aryan Resistance, and the Stormfront White Nationalist Community,
it is ONLY because he considers them to be rival gangs.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/washington-shooting-suspect-charged-with-murder-told-police-he-did-it-for-gaza/
Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, told police he did it >>>>> for Gaza
Elias Rodriguez shot victims in the back at close range, court documents >>>>> say; FBI investigating his apparent writings and far-left political
affiliations
By Luke Tress and Agencies
23 May 2025, 3:01 am
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Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the >>>>> Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington, >>>>> DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>>>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance >>>>> with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the >>>>> Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington, >>>>> DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>>>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance >>>>> with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
WASHINGTON Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with killing two Israeli >>>>> embassy staffers in Washington, DC, approached police on the scene after >>>>> the shooting and told them, I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, >>>>> according to a court document filed on Thursday.
Rodriguez allegedly murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside >>>>> an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. Lischinsky and >>>>> Milgrim were a couple, and Lischinsky was planning to propose in
Jersualem next week.
The US Justice Department said Rodriguez has been charged with two
counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the >>>>> murder of foreign officials.
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An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in support of the criminal complaint >>>>> said that as police escorted Rodriguez from the building, he shouted, >>>>> Free Palestine.
The document said police reviewed security footage showing Rodriguez >>>>> walking past the victims outside the museum, then turning, pulling a >>>>> firearm from his waistband, and shooting them in the back.
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After the victims fell to the ground, he approached them and fired
several more times, as Milgrim attempted to crawl away from him. Milgrim >>>>> then sat up while Rodriguez reloaded, and he shot her again, the video >>>>> shows, according to the affidavit.
Investigators recovered 21 empty shell cases and a 9mm handgun from the >>>>> scene that matched a firearm Rodriguez purchased in Illinois in 2020. He >>>>> flew from Chicago to Virginia with the firearm in his checked baggage, >>>>> the affidavit said. He had declared the firearm for the flight.
Yaron Lischinsky, right, and his partner Sarah Milgrim, both employees >>>>> of the Israeli Embassy in the US, were killed in a shooting in
Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy >>>>> in Washington)
Rodriguez later told detectives that he admired Aaron Bushnell, an
anti-Israel activist who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last >>>>> year in protest, calling Bushnell a martyr. Rodriguez, a 30-year-old >>>> >from Chicago, also said he had bought a ticket to the event at the
museum three hours before it started.
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This brutal, antisemitic violence has no place in our country or
anywhere in civilization, said US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. We >>>>> will follow the facts and secure the most severe possible punishment for >>>>> the perpetrator of this heinous crime, which robbed two wonderful young >>>>> people of a bright future together.
The case is being investigated by the FBI and Washingtons Metropolitan >>>>> Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the US Attorneys Office >>>>> for the District of Columbia.
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter makes remarks at the Capital >>>>> Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on May >>>>> 22, 2025. The Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside an >>>>> event at the museum on May 21, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA) >>>>> Israels ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the attacker was >>>>> inside the event before the attack.
He milled around inside the event. We still dont know exactly what he >>>>> said, but he said enough that they removed him, Leiter said at a press >>>>> briefing at the scene of the attack. He went outside, waited for
embassy workers to come out, and shot them.
Three others escaped the shooting unharmed, Leiter said.
The person who shot these two young people dead last night shouted
Free, free Palestine. This was done in the name of a political agenda >>>>> to eradicate the State of Israel, he said. The State of Israel is now >>>>> fighting a war on seven fronts. This is the eighth front in the war to >>>>> demonize, to delegitimize, to eradicate the right of the State of Israel.
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Handwritten notes left at the site of the shooting of two Israeli
Embassy staffers outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish >>>>> Museum on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images >>>>> North America/Getty Images via AFP)
FBI and police investigators are poring over apparent writings and
political affiliations of the suspect.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on social media that
investigators were aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the >>>>> suspect and hoped to soon have updates regarding their authenticity. >>>>>
Bonginos statement appeared to refer to a manifesto signed with
Rodriguezs name that was posted to an anonymous X account on Wednesday >>>>> night shortly before the shooting.
Posted with the title Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home, it
condemned Israels killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians since >>>>> the October 2023 Hamas attacks, and discussed the morality of armed >>>>> action.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the bloodshed an act of terror,
although Bondi told reporters that authorities believe the suspect acted >>>>> alone.
Investigators are also delving into the apparent political affiliations >>>>> of the suspect, who worked for a healthcare nonprofit and was believed >>>>> to have had past ties to far-left groups.
At his first appearance in court on Thursday, the suspect waived his >>>>> right to a detention hearing, and a preliminary hearing in the case was >>>>> set for June 18.
Rodriguez said little during the proceeding except to answer, I do to >>>>> questions from a federal magistrate judge about whether he understood >>>>> his rights.
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FBI agents were seen at his apartment in Chicago on Thursday, where law >>>>> enforcement blocked off the street.
Rodriguez was once affiliated with a far-left group in Chicago, the
Party for Socialism and Liberation, according to a post from the group >>>>> on X. The group said that Rodriguez had a brief association with a PSL >>>>> branch that ended in 2017 and that they knew of no contact with him in >>>>> more than seven years.
Rodriguez was also identified in a 2018 local news report as a member of >>>>> the Chicago branch of a national group called ANSWER, an acronym for Act >>>>> Now to Stop War and End Racism, which has organized demonstrations in >>>>> solidarity with Palestinians.
Rodriguez worked at the healthcare nonprofit American Osteopathic
Information Association, the organization confirmed in a statement
expressing sympathy for the victims.
He had also worked as an oral history researcher at The HistoryMakers, a >>>>> nonprofit dedicated to preserving African American stories, according to >>>>> a now-deleted biography on the groups website.
Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the
University of Illinois Chicago with an English degree. He previously >>>>> worked as a content writer for commercial and noncommercial technology >>>>> firms, the deleted page said.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel on all "eight fronts," including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah
now but also all others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
You got that right!
If Elias Rodriguez has any problem with the National Alliance, the
White Aryan Resistance, and the Stormfront White Nationalist Community,
it is ONLY because he considers them to be rival gangs.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, >>>> also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
Ron 'I'm not some fucking jew' Jacobsohnabout 23 hours agoThere you go again, accusing me of being some sort of illegal alien
ReplyPermalinkOn Sun, 25 May 2025 08:04:37 -0700, NOT Michael Ejercito
Mangina, try being wonderfully hungry.Gook, you have been ready for rapture by the ICE Five-0 for
Then you will be rapture ready!
YEARS...it's only a matter of time before you end up on a Manila-bound
banana boat...may it be soon insh'Allah!
That would be much better than being a Nazi nithing.You are a Nazi.You are a gook.
Nithing, you are so obsessed with ani.As a Nazi, you are, above all elseAs a craven gook who zsuckles jew ani, you are, below all else
ReplyPermalinkOn Mon, 26 May 2025 07:42:41 -0700, NOT Michael EjercitoThere is nothing hideous about my eyes.
Ron 'I'm not some fucking jew' Jacobsohnabout 23 hours agoThere's nothing 'alleged' about the shape of your eyes, gook....your
ReplyPermalinkOn Sun, 25 May 2025 08:04:37 -0700, NOT Michael EjercitoThere you go again, accusing me of being some sort of illegal alien
Mangina, try being wonderfully hungry.Gook, you have been ready for rapture by the ICE Five-0 for
Then you will be rapture ready!
YEARS...it's only a matter of time before you end up on a Manila-bound
banana boat...may it be soon insh'Allah!
merely because of what you allege is the shape of my eyes!
hideous slant eyed gob is all over Instagram!
White may be relevant to sex appeal; it has no relevance to honor,Don't be absurd, gook. You're not even WHITE.That would be much better than being a Nazi nithing.You are a Nazi.You are a gook.
There you go again with the ani.Gook, you are so obsessed with zsuckling jew ani.Nithing, you are so obsessed with ani.As a Nazi, you are, above all elseAs a craven gook who zsuckles jew ani, you are, below all else
The following article explains your pathology.You are a nithing- homo sapiens by birth, subhuman BY CHOICE.You are a gook - subhuman by excretion, ainlungual BY CHOICE.
ReplyPermalinkOn Mon, 26 May 2025 11:52:48 -0700, NOT Michael EjercitoAgain with the ani?
The following article explains your pathology.Zsuckling jew ani explains yours, gook.
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