Jewish Museum that shoots suspected accused of first degree murder in death by Israeli embassy aids

After two Israeli embassy helpers were deadly shot outside the capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC On Wednesday, May 21, the person who suspected of shooting first degree was accused.

US Advocate Office of District of Columbia announced Thursday, May 22, that Elias Rodriguez, 31, has been accused of federal and local murder in connection with the deadly shooting.

Rodriguez has been accused by the US District Court of the District of Columbia for the murder of foreign officials, caused death through the use of a firearm and erases a firearm during a violent crime, says the district attorney’s office. He is also charged with two bills of first degree murder under the DC penalty law.

“This brutal, anti -Semitic violence has no place in our country or anywhere in civilization,” said national lawyer Pamela Bondi in a press release.

“We will follow facts and secure the most serious possible penalty for the perpetrator for this abominable crime, which robbed two wonderful young people of a bright future together,” the statement continued.

During his first court appearance on Thursday, Rodriguez renounced its right to a storage negotiation, and a preliminary hearing for the case was set until June 18, Per Reutants.

The outlet reported that he “said a little during the procedure” besides answering “I do” when a federal magistrate judge asked if he understood his rights.

The head of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in DC, Pamela Smith, said on a Wednesday press conference That police responded to several calls about a shooting in the 3rd Street area and F Street Northwest at about 21:08 local time on May 21.

“Officers located an adult man and an adult female unconscious and not breathe at the site,” Smith told reporters.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry and Israeli Embassy in the United States Identified the couple at X as Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky. The two were plan to engage before being killed.

Smith said Milgrim and Lischinsky had undergone their injuries despite life -saving efforts and that they had “left an event.”

Before the shooting was “observed Rodriguez to stimulate back and forth outside the museum”, before approaching a “group of four people, produced a gun and opened fire and beat both our decedents”, Per Smith.

“After the shooting, the suspect then entered the museum and was arrested through event security,” Smith said. Film from an eyewitness showed that he repeatedly shouted ‘free Palestine’, while he was removed by police officers.

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Smith also noted that it is believed that Rodriguez acted alone and that the alleged murder weapon had been recovered after the suspect revealed where he discarded it.