BREAKING: DOJ seeks death penalty for man charged with killing two Israeli embassy staffers in DC

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By Hannah Nightingale

Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, announced on Friday that her office is seeking the death penalty for Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with fatally shooting two Israeli Embassy staff members outside DC’s Capital Jewish Museum.

"We filed notice that my office will seek death against the defendant Elias Rodriguez, for the killing of two young Israeli Embassy staff members at the Capitol Jewish Museum," Pirro said in a press conference. Rodriguez has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the killings of couple Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrime outside the Capital Jewish Museum on May 21, 2025.

Leading up to the shooting, police had said that they saw Rodriguez pacing in front of the museum and then approached a group of people where Lischinsky and Milgrim were, and shot them at point-blank range. Video captured Rodriguez yelling "Free, free Palestine" as he was being taken into custody.

Rodriguez, a socialist, pro-Palestinian activist, reportedly wrote in an alleged manifesto, "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."

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