Overview

• Leaked messages obtained by journalists reveal Elias Rodriguez urged a “genocide of white people” and professed long-standing support for Hamas.
• Investigators say Rodriguez fired 21 shots outside the Jewish Museum and allegedly chanted “Free Palestine” as he killed two Israeli embassy staffers.
• The victims, Yaron Lischinsky, 31, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were engaged dual American-Israeli citizens employed by the embassy.
• Rodriguez faces charges including first-degree murder of foreign officials and multiple firearms offenses as the FBI treats the killings as an act of terror.
• Prosecutors are weighing the death penalty for Rodriguez and the shooting joins more than 30 attacks on Israeli diplomatic personnel worldwide since 1969.