Alice Woelfle
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Yes, we do. We know now from the affidavit that the suspect, Elias Rodriguez, flew from his home in Chicago to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. That's the day before the attack. He declared a firearm in his checked luggage, and he bought a ticket to the event that was taking place at this Jewish museum three hours before it started. It was a mixer for young diplomats.
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From witness interviews and surveillance video, we also have some pretty gruesome details of the shooting. Law enforcement officials say Rodriguez shot at the two victims from the back. and kept firing repeatedly, even as one of them tried to crawl away.
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He then discarded his 9mm handgun, and eventually he went inside the museum and told a police officer that he had done this, saying, quote, I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.
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That's right. Not at this point. But Jeanine Pirro, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters that the murder charges and others are only the beginning. Federal agents raided Rodriguez's home in Chicago yesterday. They learned that he expressed admiration for a person who self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy here in D.C. last year.
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He described them as a martyr. And Pirro says investigators are going through massive amounts of evidence to learn what motivated him.
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It's really quite sad, Michelle. Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said Yaron Lezhinsky had bought an engagement ring. He was planning to propose to Sarah Milgram next week. They were going to be on a trip to Jerusalem. Lischinsky was a German and Israeli citizen. Milgram was American. She grew up in a Kansas City suburb.
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A friend of Milgram's, Israeli attorney Ayelet Razin Bedor, told me she took the embassy job after Hamas attacked Israel a year and a half ago. She was already sensing a rise in anti-Semitism and she wanted to combat that.
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Razine Batour says it is a painful irony that Milgram lost her life in this way.
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's police chief says there's going to be more law enforcement officers around faith-based groups, schools, and places like the Jewish Community Center here.