Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

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.

  • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 month ago

    It seems awfully staged for just how brazen and deliberately placed it is, wouldn’t put it past Mossad to kill their own for a PR stunt.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      The thing about PR is reality can be irrelevant. If violence was done in association with anything pro-Palestine: it will be used to maximize that effect.

      Same process that produces things like the Laken Riley Act.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Let’s not jump to conspiracy theories just yet. It’s completely realistic that someone would take out their anger on Israeli diplomats

      • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        It’s also completely realistic that Mossad would do something like this. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Labelling someone a conspiracy theorist isn’t really effective when the people they’re theorizing against act like conspirators.

        • glimse@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          I didn’t label you a conspiracy theorist, I was actually trying to be careful not to dismiss the suggestion entirely because yeah, that’s also plausible. But saying it “seems awfully staged” hours after it happened is Alex Jones rhetoric we should avoid lest we start looking at stupid as the far right.