The Secretary of Internal Security of the United States, Kristi Noem, has announced the event that occurred in the Jewish Museum of the American town, and adds that The authorities are “actively investigating.”
The dead have been a man and a woman, a Diplomatic and an employee of the Israel Embassy in Washingtonafter being reached by the shots of a man who was waiting for them at the exit of the North American town museum.
According to the capital of the capital, Pamela Smith, The author of the murder is Elías Rodríguez, a 30 -year -old man from Chicago and without prior backgroundwhich has already been reduced by the security forces of the museum. The executor He has delivered his weapon and acknowledged being the author of the shots.
The Head of the Metropolitan Police has indicated that the intentional shooting It has occurred around 9:08 p.m. (3 in the morning in Spain) after being seen in the area crime and approach a group of four people against whom he began to shoot.
For its part, the American television network CBS has reported citing sources related to the research that the suspect screamed “free Palestine” before shooting. Sources of the Israeli diplomatic legation have confirmed to the CNN that the maximum representative of the Embassy, Yechiel (Michael) Leiter, was not in the place when the shooting occurred.
First impressions
The spokeswoman for the Embassy of Israel, Tal Naim, has confirmed what happened in her social network X account, ensuring that “we have full confidence that the police authorities, both at the local and federal level, will stop the shooter and protect the representatives of Israel and the Jewish communities of the entire United States.”
“Two members of the Israel embassy staff have been killed without meaning tonight near the Jewish Museum of Washington DC. We are actively investigating and working to obtain more information to share,” he said in his social network account X, before ensuring that “we will take this depraved author before the justice.”
