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.

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    Seems like a lot of victim blaming in here. It can be very simple. Don’t murder people you disagree with.

    Moralizing once again, no one here advocated for murdering anyone.

    Also, free speech needs to be protected culturally as well, and not just through the government.

    The idea of freedom speech is a constitutional right, it’s not a social mores. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, you are just trying to erect a strawman argument.

    doesn’t need to be a discussion about understanding motives at all. It’s wrong and needs to be condemned, full stop.

    Lol, kinda ironic someone who is whining about free speech is trying to get people to stop talking about someone’s motive. We can discuss whatever we want, if you don’t like it you can leave. Hypocrite.

    Otherwise you don’t have a free country. You can’t hand wave it away or shrug just because you understand their motive.

    Lol, free speech means stop talking about something I don’t like because of freedoms…You are a moron.

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      Free speech means being able to say and support things you believe in without the threat of being murdered for it. Any sympathy for the murderer undermines free speech and democratic society. This is not complicated…