Two members of the Israeli Embassy staff were gunned down outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, officials said.

Two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, by a suspect who shouted "free, free Palestine" as he was arrested, police said. Israel named the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a young couple soon to be engaged.

Years before he allegedly shot and killed two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, Elias Rodriguez was an active member of left-wing groups in Chicago, protesting police violence and a proposed Amazon headquarters.

Following the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., the ADL is urging Americans to stand up against surging antisemitism across the country.

Israel’s embassy in the US has named the couple shot dead in Washington as Yaron and Sarah. Israeli media reports their full names are Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram. The victims “were in the prime of their lives,” the embassy posts on X . “A terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC,” it says.

The two Israeli embassy workers who were shot and killed in Washington, D.C., on May 21 have been identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.

State lawmakers are pushing for additional non-profit security grant program funding that has aided cultural and religious institutions across Illinois.

WASHINGTON — Police are investigating a triple shooting in Southeast D.C. Friday night. The shooting happened in the 4200 block of 4th Street, SE. The exact time of the shooting has not yet been released. A spokesperson with the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to WUSA9 that three people were wounded in the shooting.