Alert – DC museum shooting live: Suspect will be HIDDEN from cameras as he appears in court for murdering two

Alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez is expected to make his first appearance in federal court in Washington DC later this afternoon.

A person familiar with the investigation told CNN that he will be hauled before a judge later on Thursday, however his exact charges have not yet been announced.

Rodriguez is expected to be given a closed-door hearing and is unlikely to be paraded in front of cameras for his first hearing, as is often standard in federal cases.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy blamed academics and liberal politicians in a blistering response to Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Washington DC.

‘A domestic terrorist went hunting Jews last night in Wash DC open firing outside a Jewish event killing 2 Jews,’ Portnoy, a 48-year-old Massachusetts native and self-identified Jew, wrote on X.

‘The terrorist Elias Rodriguez yelled ‘Free Palestine’ as he got arrested.

‘This type of tragedy is the natural progression of events when the morons running our colleges, far left politicians, and hate merchants on social media continue to normalize and seemingly encourage anti semitism in this country.’

Portnoy went on to repeat allegations against suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez, that have surfaced online, some of which have not been corroborated.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt touted the Trump administration’s efforts to root out antisemitism across the US as she responded to Wednesday’s shooting in Washington DC.

Leavitt said ‘hatred has no place in the United States of America under Donald Trump’, and said the administration would be stepping up its policies to ‘crack down on antisemitism.’

‘The evil of antisemitism must be eradicated from our society,’ she said.

Leavitt pointed to actions such as withholding federal funds from universities that fail to crack down on pro-Palestine demonstrations, and the revocation of ‘thousands of student visas’ involved in such protests.

‘So, the president’s made it very clear that such hatred will have no place in our country,’ she said.

The shocking double slaying of two Israeli embassy staffers on Wednesday was far from the first time Israeli foreign hubs have been targeted by terrorists.

Since 1969, there have been at least 31 terrorist attacks on Israeli embassies or diplomatic staffers around the world, per Fox News.

The murders came amid rising global protests over Israel’s treatment of civilians in Gaza.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it has lowered flags at its facilities around the world to half-staff in remembrance of the victims of Wednesday’s shooting.

The ministry said on X that ‘Israeli flags at the Foreign Ministry and at missions around the world have been lowered to half-mast in mourning’ of victims Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

‘We are heartbroken,’ the post read.

‘May Yaron and Sarah’s memory be a blessing.’

Former President Biden followed leaders around the world in condemning the deadly shooting in Washington DC on Wednesday night as an act of ‘violence and hate.’

He said in an X post that he and former First Lady Jill Biden ‘are horrified and saddened by the deadly shooting outside of the Capital Jewish Museum last night that claimed the lives of two young people.’

‘Antisemitic violence and hate have no place in our communities.

‘We are praying for Yaron and Sarah’s families and loved ones.’

Pro-Palestine advocacy non-profit The Muslim Public Affairs Council said it ‘unequivocally’ condemnds Wednesday’s killings of a young Israeli embassy couple.

The organization, which often criticized Israel’s treatment of civilians in Gaza, said in a statement that it denounced the senseless shootings.

‘Now more than ever, we must reject hatred and division, whether it’s antisemitism or scapegoating of any group,’ the organization said, per the New York Times.

John Wayne Fry, the neighbor of suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez, decided to hold his own pro-Palestine protest as the media descended on their apartment building.

Fry held a sign reading ‘Ceasefire Now – No More Deaths’, as he faced questions from reporters over his neighbor who allegedly killed two Israeli embassy workers on Wednesday night.

He went on to describe Rodriguez as quiet and ‘friendly’, and said he wished he could have talked him out of the senseless shootings.

‘You don’t stop war with guns and bombs,’ he said.

Fry added that a woman lived with the suspected killer in their apartment building, but he was not sure of the nature of their relationship.

Several members of Congress have been seen paying their respects at the scene of Wednesday night’s shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum.

Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin was among those who laid flowers at the scene.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz also attended the vigil, and was seen speaking with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter.

A heartbroken friend of one of the victims killed in the horror shooting outside the Jewish Museum has revealed his final phone call with the ‘peaceful’ pillar of the community.

Josh Maxey told DailyMail.com that he spoke to Sarah Milgrim at around 5pm Wednesday and she was ‘her normal bubbly self’ and was excited about her upcoming trip to Israel with her boyfriend Yaron Lischinsky.

‘I struggle to find the words because this is someone who I literally spoke to last evening,’ he said.

‘We were talking about our plans for an event we were putting on together for Pride… then after we got finished talking about the business, we were just catching up and she was getting excited about her trip to Israel.’

He added: ‘She was supposed to leave [for Israel] on this coming Friday and be there for, I believe, two weeks.’

Just a few hours later, Milgrim and Lischinsky were dead – gunned down by suspected shooter Elias Rodriguez after a Young Diplomats event in the heart of Washington D.C.

When he first heard there had been a shooting in the capital, Maxey said he didn’t think too much of it. Then, friends and community members began checking in on him to see if he was okay and he realized where it was.

He frantically texted and called Milgrim – but got no answer.

‘I was texting and calling her to see if she was okay. And so I [started to] put two and two together and got very anxious. I was texting my embassy friends, texting Sarah, calling her to see if she was okay – no response,’ he said.

‘Then I finally got a call from my colleagues here telling me that it was confirmed that she and her soon to be fiancé were killed in this targeted attack.’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt began Thursday’s press briefing with a heartfelt tribute to the victims of Wednesday’s shooting.

Leavitt said President Trump was ‘saddened and outraged’ by the fatal shootings of two young Israeli embassy staffers.

She echoed remarks from Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier in the day as she vowed the Justice Department would be ‘prosecuting the perpetrator responsible for this to the fullest extent of the law.’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has spoken with President Trump this morning to discuss the shocking shooting in Washington DC.

Netanyahu said Trump expressed his ‘deep sorrow’ over the tragedy.

The Israeli leader’s office said he also thanked Trump for his efforts to fight antisemitism in the United States.

Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter added to reporters at the scene of the shooting that Trump ‘reaffirmed his commitment to uproot the violent antisemitism that has swept across university campuses in this country.’

The parents of DC shooting victim Sarah Milgrim said they were concerned for her safety as she was preparing for a trip to Jerusalem to meet her boyfriend Yaron Lischinsky’s family just days before the shooting.

Her father Robert said he was not aware Yaron was set to propose to his daughter on the trip to Israel until Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, called him to inform him about the tragedy.

‘The ironic part is that we were worried for our daughter’s safety in Israel,’ he told the New York Times.

‘But she was murdered three days before going.’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he is re-inforcing police protextions at Israeli diplomatic buildings and Jewish institutions across the Big Apple.

He said he was making the move in response to the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington DC on Wednesday night.

Adams insisted that authorities are not aware of any connection between what happened in DC and any threats in New York, but he was beefing up security out of an ‘overabundance of caution.’

The family of the pro-Palestinian suspect in the slaying of two young Israeli diplomats were lost for words over the horrific attack in Washington DC when contacted by the Daily Mail.

We contacted the parents of Elias Rodriguez, 30, by phone Thursday morning, just hours after their son allegedly shot and killed the two victims at point-blank range outside the Jewish Museum Wednesday night.

When asked for her reaction to the shocking attack, a nervous-sounding woman at the Franklin Park home of the suspect’s mom Elvira Rodriguez abruptly said ‘I have no comment’ before quickly hanging up the phone.

Meanwhile, the accused killer’s father, Eric Rodriguez, appeared to be too distraught to speak.

At his address in Chicago, a woman came to the phone and explained that he is not speaking to anyone at this time.

The stunned silence from the family comes as a chilling manifesto believed to be left by the suspected shooter pays tribute to his loved ones, amid a rambling diatribe about the conflict in Gaza and the American government.

‘I love you Mom, Dad, baby sis, the rest of my familia, including you, O*****,’ the manifesto, obtained and shared online by journalist Ken Klippenstein, reads.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took to X at midday Thursday to update the public on the investigation into the Capital Jewish Museum shooting ‘in the interest of transparency.’

‘Out of respect for the investigation and the charges being aggressively pursued, we are limited in what we can immediately say, but we want to share as much information with the public as possible as we work through the process and seek justice,’ he said.

Bongino said the bureau is aware of alleged shooter Elias Rodriguez’s social media posts of an apparent manifesto, ‘and we hope to have updates as to the authenticity very soon.’

He said Rodriguez is in custody and was interviewed last night at around 1am, but did not offer details on this interrogation.

Bongino said the FBI ‘believes there is no ongoing threat to the public at this time’, but insisted that investigators were following up on all leads.

‘Above all, please pray for the families of the victims,’ he concluded.

‘This is something no parent, family member, or friend should have to go through. The FBI sends our condolences and will offer our full support as the investigation continues.’

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro paid tribute to slain Israeli embassy couple Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram as he drew comparisons with himself and his own wife.

Shapiro said in an X post that he and his wife Lori ‘are heartbroken and horrified’ by the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night.

He noted reports that Yaron was preparing to propose to Sarah on a trip to Jerusalem next week, the same place that he proposed to his wife Lori.

‘I proposed to Lori in Jerusalem under the Montefiore Windmill, and we were married 28 years ago this Sunday,’ he said.

‘Yaron and Sarah should have had the same opportunity — and a life together far beyond what their murderer cut short.

May their memories be a blessing and a call to action for each of us.’

The executive director of the Capital Jewish Museum Dr. Beatrice Gurwitz said she intends to re-open the institution within days.

Gurwitz said the museum is ‘heartbroken’ by the shooting on its steps on Wednesday night, where two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead.

She said she and her team intend to re-open in the coming days ‘with all necessary security in place, so we can return to telling the story of Jewish Washington for thousands of visitors from around the world.’

‘We are heartbroken by the murders of Yaron (Lischinsky) and Sarah Milgrim, and send our sincere condolences to their families and friends. May they, and all who grieve this devastating loss, be comforted by their communities,’ Gurwitz added.

‘In an act of horrific antisemitic violence, a gunman attacked our beloved community. This tragedy is devastating.

‘Such acts of terror attempt to instill fear, silence voices, and erase history — but we refuse to let them succeed.’

Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to prosecute the gunman who killed two Israeli embassy workers ‘to the fullest extent of the law.’

Speaking from the scene outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Bondi said: ‘No parents should have to be called and told that their children were violently murdered leaving a religious event.

‘That should never happen in this world and not in our country. And this person will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.’

Bondi appeared to grow emotional as she spoke of the tragic shooting.

She declined to comment whether suspect Elias Rodriguez is cooperating with authorities and whether the DOJ would seek the death penalty in the case.

She praised the response of law enforcement, saying that multiple agencies are ‘doing everything we can to protect our entire community, and especially our Jewish community.’

Staff who worked alongside victims Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim say the couple were known for their love for each other around the embassy.

‘It was the cutest love story,’ an official said, adding that they met each other around a year and a half ago when they started working together.

They said their relationship was ‘like a poster for a Netflix rom-com’, and the couple often enjoyed sharing their lunch together.

Friends say Yaron was preparing to propose to Sarah on a trip to Jerusalem they were set to take together next week.

Pro-Palestine protest signs and political yard postings were seen in the windows at the home of shooting suspect Elias Rodriguez.

Signs reading ‘Ceasefire Now – No More Deaths’ were seen in his window, hours after he allegedly killed two Israeli embassy staffers.

‘Vote Yes For Affordable Housing’, and signs for political candidates including Delia Ramirez and Ebony Deberry were also seen.

The man accused of shooting dead an Israeli couple in Washington DC wrote about wanting to ‘vote for Hamas’ and carrying out terror attacks in warped social media posts.

Elias Rodriguez, 31, was arrested in connection with the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish museum.

Social media posts which appear to have been made by him have since revealed the extent of his militant support for the besieged nation, with his post recent writings urging followers to, ‘escalate for Gaza, bring the war home’.

On the day of the US election, an account linked to Rodriguez re-shared a post which read: ‘Don’t blame me, I voted for Hamas’.

Another chilling post on X detailed a desire to attack the New York Times’ headquarters.

‘Progressive tweeps, as much as I love delving into the day’s Discourse, can we PLEASE save the idealistic and high-minded debate over the morality of sending a truck bomb into the offices of The New York Times until *AFTER* we send a truck bomb into the office,’ the post read.

The X account’s profile picture features a grainy avatar wearing a medical face mask, with many progressives donning the face-coverings to make a political statement long after the COVID crisis ended.

Other concerning entries included a post which read, ‘De@th to Amerikkka’ and sharing posts with the Israeli flag emoji followed by a pig and a knife.

Officials revealed the two people who were stood by victims Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milligan when they were shot dead last night were also Israeli embassy staffers.

An Israeli official told CNN that they were young American women, and were stood by the couple when they were shot at close range.

Neither was injured in the shooting, and they have not been publicly identified.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke to the parents of the two Israeli embassy staff who were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Msueum overnight.

In a statement from Netanyahu’s office, he said he ‘told the families that he shares in their deep sorrow, together with the entire Jewish People.’

Netanyahu added that he has also spoen with Attorney General Pam Bondi, ‘who promised that the murderer, and everyone who cooperated with him, would be brought to justice.’

Rep. Ilhan Omar ran away when confronted by a reporter asking for her response to the deadly shooting at the Capitol Jewish Museum overnight.

The pro-Palestinian congresswoman when asked about the tragedy brushed-off of the reporter’s query.

‘Congresswoman Omar, can I get your reaction to the shooting that happened in DC last night?’ a reporter asked outside the Capitol on Thursday morning.

The progressive Minnesota representative responded nonchalantly as she was walking: ‘I’m going to go for now.’

She then briskly walked away from the cameras and reporters.

Omar, a Somali refugee, is one of the most outspoken on Capitol Hill in support of Palestinians amid the ingoing war with Israel.

EPA Director Lee Zeldin revealed that he met DC shooting victim Sarah Milgrim just two weeks before she was shot dead on Wednesday night.

‘She struck me as a young woman filled with life and positivity,’ Zeldin wrote in an X post on Thursday morning.

‘Heartbroken to learn she was one of two tragically murdered last night by a Jew-hating radical screaming ‘Free Palestine.’

‘May Sarah and Yaron rest in peace.’

Yaron Lischinsky dreamed of becoming a leading global diplomat after studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, one of his former professors has revealed.

Nissim Otmazgin, the Dean of Humanities at the university, told CNN Yaron was ‘an outstanding student and a wonderful person.’

‘His dream was to become a diplomat. He was actually just starting his new career as a diplomat, he was murdered,’ he said.

Otmazgin said Lischinsky ‘became an Israeli’ after moving from Germany to study in the Middle East.

‘In many ways, I think for me, he symbolizes the hope of Israel,’ he said.

‘Young people — idealistic — that are going abroad, studying about different cultures, and trying to do good for their country. So in this sense, it is not only a personal tragedy, it’s also kind of public tragedy.

‘He is the best that Israel can offer.’

The parents of DC shooting victim Sarah Milgrim said they were getting ready for bed on Wednesday night when they saw news reports of the shooting at an event for the American Jewish Committee.

Her mother Nancy said she knew her daughter was a fellow at the organization, and immediately called authorities to find out if her daughter was a victim.

After both couldn’t offer any information, she said she opened a family locator app and saw her daughter’s location at the Capital Jewish Museum, where the shooting had unfolded.

‘I pretty much already knew,’ she told the New York Times.

‘I was hoping to be wrong.’

Nancy Milgrim said her phone then rang, and when she picked up it was Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, on the other line.

Sarah’s father Robert added that Leiter pointed to rising anti-Semitism in the US following the October 7 attacks on Israel.

‘What went through my mind is, I feel the antisemitism that has surfaced since Oct. 7 and also since the election of President Trump,’ Robert said.

‘It’s just an extension of my worst fears.’

Law enforcement have reportedly gathered at the Chicago home of suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez, 30.

CNN reported that it observed multiple police vehicles arriving at an address in the city associated with the alleged killer, and ‘the scene remains very active.’

The home is in the Albany Park neighborhood in Chicago’s north side, one of the most densely populated areas of the city, the outlet reported.

It comes after deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino announced earlier Thursday that the bureau was joining the investigation.

‘Targeted acts of anti-Semitic violence are typically carried out by spineless, gutless cowards. And the penalties will be harsh as we tighten up this investigation and run down any additional leads. I should have additional updates for you shortly as I head back to FBI HQ,’ Bongino said.

Suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez was once quoted in an uber-woke want about racism in Chicago at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2017.

In 2017, he participated in a protest outside the residence of then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel against the city’s bid to host an Amazon headquarters.

The demonstration was on the three-year anniversary of Laquan McDonald’s slaying by cops in the city.

He was quoted as a member of the Party for Socialism, as he argued that McDonald’s murder and Chicago’s attempt at obtaining the Amazon HQ were connected.

‘The wealth that Amazon has brought to Seattle has not been shared with its black residents,’ Rodriguez said at the time.

‘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?’

In an image from Liberation News, a man reportedly identified as Rodriguez was seen holding a sign at the protest reading ‘$ for People’s Needs – Not Amazon!’

Others held banners reading ‘Justice for Laquan – Not $ for Amazon!’

The Capital Jewish Museum received a security grant from the DC government days before Wednesday’s shooting after voicing concerns for its safety.

The museum said it had ‘serious concerns’ about its security, not only because it is a Jewish organization but also due to a new LGBTQ exhibit it was displaying, per NBC Washington.

‘Jewish institutions all around town, all around the country, are concerned about security due to some very scary incidents that some institutions have faced and because of a climate of antisemitism,’ Executive Director Beatrice Gurwitz said earlier this week.

‘So, we invest a lot of money in security to make sure that we can keep our doors open to the broad public, that this is a welcoming space, but that people are also safe in this space.’

The museum said it received a little over $30,000 in the grant, which Gurwitz said would go toward ‘making sure we are prepared in the event of an emergency.’

An unidentified person was shot and wounded outside CIA property in McLean, Virginia early on Thursday morning, authorities say.

The shooting unfolded around 4am, and the CIA said it has launched an investigation into the incident.

It came just hours after two Israeli embassy workers were shot dead just eight miles from the CIA shooting.

There is currently no indication from law enforcement that the two incidents are linked.

The suspected pro-Palestinian gunman who shot dead a young Jewish diplomatic couple in Washington DC has been unmasked as left wing radical Elias Rodriguez.

Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, is a far-left activist who worked as an ‘oral history researcher’ on African American communities at educational non-profit TheHistoryMakers, participated in anti-capitalist demonstrations, and has been a member of the party for ‘socialism and liberation.’

In the alleged shooter’s profile, which has been deleted from the organization’s website, it says his role was to ‘prepare detailed research outlines and biographies of accomplished leaders in the African American community.’

He previously worked as a content writer in the ‘technology space’, the profile reads, and he holds a B.A in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Images circulating on social media appear to show Rodriguez at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2017 on the three year anniversary of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, and he is believed to have been affiliated with the Part for Socialism group.

American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch said the shocking killings of two Israeli embassy workers represents the community’s ‘worst fears coming true.’

‘Last night, really our worst fears came true. This was an event we all look forward to every year that brings together AJC’s young leaders,’ Deutch said.

‘This year, the focus was on humanitarian diplomacy. It was on finding ways to work together in an interfaith way across the region to help bring peace.

‘There were friends and allies of the Jewish community, people from across the diplomatic world. And all of the good feeling was shattered immediately after when these two, when these two beautiful young souls were taken by this murderer.

‘This is a horrific reminder to the Jewish community in the world that antisemitism, often most times, is not violent until it becomes violent.’

Vice President JD Vance issued a statement condemning the rise of antisemitism after the shocking shootings on Wednesday night.

‘My heart breaks for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, who were murdered last night at the Capital Jewish Museum,’ he said in an X post.

‘Antisemitic violence has no place in the United States. We’re praying for their families and all of our friends at the Israeli Embassy, where the two victims worked.’

A witness to the shooting of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington DC said the killings were so loud he initially thought it was construction noise.

Witness Jonathan Epstein said he was close enough to look in the shooter’s eyes when he opened fire on Wednesday night.

‘The event had just wrapped up. A couple of us were touring the galleries upstairs and out of nowhere, we hear a series of loud bangs, just ‘boom, boom, boom,’ one after the other,’ Epstein told CNN.

And my friend was like ‘were those gunshots?’ And I was like ‘no, no, no that was just construction we’re fine.’

Epstein said he then saw a man ‘rush in saying he had disclocated his shoulder’, but it is not clear if this was suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez, 30.

He said he initially thought it was a ‘random shooting’ until he heard the killer yell ‘Free Palestine.’

Mourners gathered at the scene of the tragic shooting on Thursday morning hours after two Israeli embassy workers were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC.

Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Nir Barkat was among those paying their respects, as others were seen bringing flowers.

Investigators were still working the scene, with suspected killer Elias Rodriguez, 30, in custody.

President Donald Trump pledged to end the wave of anti-Semeitism being displayed in the U.S. in the wake of the murder of two Israeli Embassy workers.

‘These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!’ Trump posted to Truth Social overnight. ‘Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA.’

‘Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!’ he wrote just after midnight on Thursday morning.

Trump and his administration have been cracking down over the first months of his administration on the universities across the U.S. that allow pro-Palestinian protests on their campuses.

An X account that shared a manifesto believed to be from suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez previously called for the bombing of the New York Times offices.

‘Progressive tweeps, as much as I love delving into the day’s Discourse™️, can we PLEASE save the idealistic and high-minded debate over the morality of sending a truck bomb into the offices of The New York Times until *AFTER* we send a truck bomb into the offi’ (sic) the post read.

The post was shared in October 2024, and it is unclear if the inflammatory post was flagged to law enforcement at the time.

An alleged manifesto said to have been written by suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez emerged on social media.

According to journalist Ken Klippenstein, formerly of The Intercept, a 980-word manifesto was published by Rodriguez before the shooting.

The document reads: ‘Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, and the American government has simply shrugged, they’ll do without public opinion then, criminalize it where they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances that they’re doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright.’

A friend of DC shooting victim Yaron Lischinsky said the Israeli embassy worker was a ‘man of conviction, of humility, of warmth, and of profound integrity’ in a heartbreaking tribute.

‘You could not have met a kinder soul. He and I used to talk in the back of our congregation on Friday evenings in Jerusalem about life, ministry, identity, our futures, our passions, our faith,’ friend David Boskey said on Facebook.

‘Yaron was going propose to his beloved fiancee, Sarah Milgrim, in Jerusalem next week. Instead, their families will be burying them in their prime.’

The family of DC shooting victim Sarah Milgrim heartbreakingly revealed they did not know she was set to get engaged until officials said she was after Wednesday’s shocking murders.

Her parents told the New York Times that Milgrim, who grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas, had met Yaron Lischinsky a year and a half ago shortly after joining the Israeli embassy.

‘He was incredible,’ Milgrim’s father Robert said, adding Lischinsky had met his girlfriend’s parents multiple times.

‘He was very much like Sarah: passionate, extremely intelligent, dedicated to what he does, always on the cause of what’s right.’

DC shooting victim Yaron Lischinsky held a German passport, Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday morning.

He said Lischinsky was a duel German-Israeli national, and said in an address to the German Bundestag that the shooting had ‘shaken’ the legislature.

‘I think I speak for the whole House in saying that this has shaken us, that our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the murdered and the members of the Israeli foreign service,’ he said.

He described the murder as an ‘insideous’ act.

The shooting comes as Israel has launched a new campaign targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip in a war that has set tensions aflame across the wider Middle East.

The war began with the Palestinian militant group Hamas coming out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, to kill 1,200 people and take some 250 hostages back to the coastal enclave.

In the time since, Israel’s devastating campaign in Gaza has killed more than 53,000 people, mostly women and children, according to local health authorities, whose count doesn’t differentiate between combatants and civilians.

The fighting has displaced 90% of the territory’s roughly 2 million population, sparked a hunger crisis and obliterated vast swaths of Gaza’s urban landscape. Aid groups ran out of food to distribute weeks ago, and most of the population of around 2.3 million relies on communal kitchens whose supplies are nearly depleted.

The attack was seen by officials in Israel and the U.S. as the latest in a growing wave of antisemitism as Israel ramps up its offensive in the Gaza Strip, and as food security experts have warned that Gaza risks falling into famine unless Israel’s blockade ends.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said the man had purchased a ring this week with the intent to propose next week in Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that ‘wild incitement against the State of Israel’ was to blame for the horror attack and that it was the ‘terrible price of anti-Semitism.’

Netanyahu has also announced increased security measures at Israeli diplomatic missions worldwide in order to protect state representatives.

‘These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!” President Donald Trump posted on social media early Thursday.

‘Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA.’

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

They were targeted as they were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when the suspect approached a group of four people and opened fire, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith.

Lischinsky was a German-Israeli dual national employed as a research assistant for Middle East & North African Affairs at the Embassy’s Political Department, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He had purchased an engagement ring earlier this week ‘with the intention of proposing next week in Jerusalem,’ Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter revealed.

Milgrim worked in the public diplomacy department at the embassy. She earned a master’s degree in international studies from American University.

One of her main duties was organizing missions and visits to Israel.

A pro-Palestinian gunman suspected of shooting a young Jewish diplomatic couple dead was filmed manically screaming ‘Free Palestine’ as he was hauled into custody.

Footage emerged overnight of 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez as he was taken into custody after two Israeli embassy staffers were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC.

Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim were identified as the victims in the vile attack that was condemned by President Donald Trump.