WASHINGTON (AP) — Two employees members of the Israeli embassy have been shot and killed Wednesday night whereas leaving an occasion at a Jewish museum within the nation’s capital, and the suspect and yelled “free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police stated.
The 2 victims, a person and a girl, have been leaving an occasion on the Capital Jewish Museum when the 30-year-old suspect approached a gaggle of 4 folks and opened hearth, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith stated at a information convention.
The suspect was noticed pacing outdoors the museum earlier than the capturing, walked into the museum after the capturing and was detained by occasion safety, Smith stated.
When he was taken into custody, the person started chanting, “free, free Palestine,” Smith stated.
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi stated she was on the scene with former decide Jeanine Pirro, who serves because the U.S. lawyer in Washington.
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, known as the capturing a “wicked act of anti-Semitic terrorism.”
“We’re assured that the US authorities will take robust motion in opposition to these accountable for this legal act,” Danon stated in a put up on X. “Israel will proceed to behave resolutely to guard its residents and representatives — all over the place on the planet.”
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