2 employees of the Israeli embassy were killed in Washington, DC, the shooting

Officials said that two employees of the Israeli embassy were killed in gunfire outside an event at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday evening, and a suspect in the reservation.

A man and a woman was shot in the third and second streets in the northwest located near the museum, FBI Field Office and the US Prosecutor’s Office. The Israeli ambassador said they were a young couple about to get married.

Washington police chief Pamela Smith said that the suspect who was seen was walking outside the museum before the event in the reservation. She said that the suspect chanted “Palestine free, free Palestine”, in the reservation.

Smith said that the suspect, who was initially identified as Elias Rodriguez, who was 30 years old, had no previous police contact.

Tal Nayem Cohen, a spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Washington, said that two of her employees had been shot “close to” while attending a Jewish event in the museum.

The Israeli embassy did not immediately respond to questions about the shooter, victims, or the motive behind the attack.

Mayor Morel Boser said at a press conference on Wednesday night that there is no active threat to the public.

In a post on the social truth, US President Donald Trump expressed condolences to the families of the victims The shooting was condemned.

“These terrible killings, which clearly depend on anti -Semitism, now! He said in a message about the social truth. “Hate and radicalism has no place in the United States.”

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also condemned the incident.

Tal Nayem Cohen, a spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Washington, said that two of her employees had been shot “close to” while attending a Jewish event in the museum.

“We will bring this corrupt perpetrator to justice,” said internal Security Minister Christie Nayyim in a post in X.

The FBI director, Cash Patel, said that his team had been briefed on the shooting.

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Danny Donnon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, called on a “corrupt act of anti -Semitic terrorism.”

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Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi and the American lawyer in Colombia County Janine Peru was the shooting site.

“This event was about humanitarian aid.”

They said that Yoni Calin and Katie Calcher were inside the museum when they heard gunshots and a man came inside looking for sad.

Calin said that people came to help him and brought him water, believing that he needed help, without realizing that he is the suspect.

When the police arrived, he brought his red qualitative and repeatedly shouted, “Free Palestine”, Calin said.

“This event was about humanitarian aid,” Calin said. “How can we help each of the people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we combine Muslims, Jews and Christians to work together to help innocent people in reality? Then here two people are killed in cold blood.”

The Jewish Union in Greater Washington said in a statement that they were terrified of the shooting and “in mourning for the loss of the two people who were killed in the attack.”

“Our hearts with their families and loved ones, and with all those affected by this tragic act of anti -Semitic violence,” the union said.