Overview

• Two Israeli Embassy staffers, a man and a woman, were fatally shot at close range outside the Capital Jewish Museum during an American Jewish Committee event on Wednesday night.
• The victims, described as a young couple engaged to be married, were leaving the museum when the suspect opened fire on them.
• The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, was detained by event security after entering the museum and chanting 'Free Palestine' while in custody.
• U.S. and Israeli officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Ambassador Danny Danon, condemned the attack as a 'depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism' and vowed justice.
• Security has been heightened at Jewish and diplomatic sites as local and federal authorities continue their investigation into the attack.