Who is the anti-Israel suspect in the killing of 2 Israeli embassy staffers?
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The suspect, known for his anti-Israel stance, reportedly shot two staff members of the Israeli Embassy as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last night. Authorities have identified him as Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old from Chicago. 

The Israeli Embassy in the U.S. confirmed that the victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were to be engaged. Rodriguez is suspected of acting alone and has been taken into custody, as stated by Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith. 

A gun was also recovered from the scene. 

Katie Kalisher, a witness at the museum on Wednesday night, recounted her encounter with Rodriguez on “FOX & Friends” Thursday. She described Rodriguez as appearing troubled and drenched from the rain when he entered the building after 10 to 15 gunshots were heard. He requested assistance in contacting law enforcement. 

“I’m like, ‘so, do you like this museum?’ And he’s like, kind of playing dumb with me. He’s like, ‘oh, what kind of museum is this?’ And I’m like ‘it’s a Jewish museum. He asks ‘Do you think that is why they did it?’ in reference to gunshots we had heard. And I was like, ‘yeah maybe, I don’t know but I don’t think so, I hope not,’” Kalisher said. “And that is when he reaches into his bag and pulls out a kaffiyeh and says to me, ‘I did it. I did this for Gaza.’ And then he starts shouting ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ and the police show up and arrest him.” 

The HistoryMakers did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Thursday. 

A 2017 article in Liberation News – the newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation – mentioned that an Elias Rodriguez was among the protesters who “gathered outside Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house to demand justice for Laquan McDonald and an end to the ethnic cleansing of Chicago vis-à-vis gentrification on Oct. 20, [2017] the anniversary of McDonald’s murder by Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke.” 

Scene where Israeli embassy staffers were shot

A man, with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center, kneels next to emergency personnel working at the site where two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/TPX Images of the Day)

“The event, organized by the People’s Congress of Resistance, ANSWER Chicago and Black Lives Matter Women of Faith, gathered in front of Mayor Emanuel’s Ravenswood home in response to the $2.25 billion bid for an Amazon headquarters in the city of Chicago,” it continued. 

“Elias Rodriguez from the Party for Socialism and Liberation argued that the murder of Laquan McDonald and the Chicago bid for an Amazon headquarters are not two separate issues, but rather they are both connected,” the article read.  

“’The wealth that Amazon has brought to Seattle has not been shared with its Black residents,’ Rodriguez said. ‘[Amazon’s] whitening of Seattle is structurally racist and a direct danger to all workers who live in that city. So do we in Chicago and all across the country want a nation of cities dominated and occupied by massive corporations where only the rich and White can live and the vast majority of us must live on edges of the city and society living in deeper and deeper poverty? I don’t think so,’” the article quoted Rodriguez as saying. 

The Party for Socialism and Liberation then wrote on X this morning that “We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting.  

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter at scene of shooting in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter speak to law enforcement officials at the site of the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

“Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it,” it said. 

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Pritchett and Bradford Betz contributed to this report. 

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