BREAKING NEWS Two Israeli embassy staff killed outside Washington DC Jewish museum

[Tug]

59 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

 

Was the guy on the radar as a bad actor? 

He certainly should have been and that museum should have been monitored to prevent just this type of tragedy.you can bet your bottom dollar the rank and file in homeland security and the FBI are keeping their heads down trying to weather the chaos and ruin this administration is creating.i doubt many if any are being pro active on anything that crosses their desks.

[Yellowtail]

3 minutes ago, Tug said:

He certainly should have been and that museum should have been monitored to prevent just this type of tragedy.you can bet your bottom dollar the rank and file in homeland security and the FBI are keeping their heads down trying to weather the chaos and ruin this administration is creating.i doubt many if any are being pro active on anything that crosses their desks.

Why should he have been on a watch list?

 

What could the museum have done? 

 

 

[Patong2021]

I see that no one noticed that the Capital Museum event was raising money for humanitarian groups including  Gaza humanitarian aid. This event was the annual Young Diplomats dinner. It is intended to bridge cultural and national divisions by bringing together Muslims, Jews and Christians for a common cause to help people who are caught up in conflicts not of their making.  This was a peacemaking event, not a specific Israeli or Jewish event. The hosting venue was the Jewish Museum.

 

17 hours ago, KhunLA said:

At the time of the news blip .... statement, nothing known, but had to an anti semitic attack.  Not a random mugging gone bad, or 3 way love affair ending badly.

 

... "Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, condemned the attack, labelling it as an anti-Semitic act of terror. 

 

The motive and identity of the perpetrators are yet unclear" ...

 

Shortly after the shooting the videos  were circulating of the  perp shouting Free free palestine. This was also reported by some news organizations. others  chose to ignore that part of the story.

 

11 hours ago, Tug said:

Were was homeland security?2 obvious possible targets visiting an obvious location were such targets for the bad actors would congregate?were was our folks that are supposed to be keeping track of such things?it’s trumps team that failed to derail this obvious terrorist act.he owns it……

 

As others have pointed out, it seems that there is no way anyone would have known about this lunatic until the event.  However, he was  seen pacing about outside the  museum, and this should have set off warning bells. Unfortunately, he had a legal right to do walk around even if agitated. It would have been illegal to intercede if he was non violent.

If he was crazy, the question should be asked as to how he was able to access a firearm so easily.

[Yagoda]

33 minutes ago, Tug said:

He certainly should have been and that museum should have been monitored to prevent just this type of tragedy.you can bet your bottom dollar the rank and file in homeland security and the FBI are keeping their heads down trying to weather the chaos and ruin this administration is creating.i doubt many if any are being pro active on anything that crosses their desks.

You are a disgusting human being to indirectly blame this on Trump. The blame is on jew haters like you and your allies here.

 

I wonder how many posters here would pull the trigger on a Jew.

[Yagoda]

20 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

If he was crazy, the question should be asked as to how he was able to access a firearm so easily.

How do you know it was easy?

[Yellowtail]

I am trying to remember which party it was that was so strongly against stop and frisk policies, anyone? 

[KhunLA]

31 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

How do you know it was easy?

I'm guessing the firearm was purchased illegally, or it would be in the news, if purchased legally, along with the usual 'ban guns' rhetoric 

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I'm guessing the firearm was purchased illegally, or it would be in the news, if purchased legally, along with the usual 'ban guns' rhetoric 

The left wants leftist radicals to have guns, that's why they're not crowing about gun control yet. 

 

[sqwakvfr]

 

He is now in the one place where "Free Palestine" literally has no meaning: Washington DC Jail. Idealistic people do not adapt well behind bars.  Also, he just might get "loving" from a fellow inmate whether he wants or not. I just read a report that even after emptying his magazine on the couple he reloaded and shot them after they had fallen.  Also, he flew from Chicago to DC to carry out this crime.  Looks like a classic death penalty case to me. 

[Yagoda]

3 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I'm guessing the firearm was purchased illegally, or it would be in the news, if purchased legally, along with the usual 'ban guns' rhetoric 

It was an HK pistol, 9mm. Stolen or bought lawfully, I would assume lawfully because its a more obscure and sophisticated pistol, expensive and German.

 

Dude had no record. He was just your basic murderous Socialist. https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/homegrown-terror-dc-jewish-museum-shooting-suspect-elias-rodriguezs-path-to-self-radicalization/

 

It has been reported he posted "Death to America". 

 

This is just another shot in their war against the USA and nobody has shot back yet. This guy needs to be tried, his appeals expedited and shot as soon as possible or even better, Supermaxed. Thats punishment.  Nechaeyev found that out in the basement of the Peter and Paul fortress.

[Yagoda]

3 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

 

He is now in the one place where "Free Palestine" literally has no meaning: Washington DC Jail. Idealistic people do not adapt well behind bars.  Also, he just might get "loving" from a fellow inmate whether he wants or not. I just read a report that even after emptying his magazine on the couple he reloaded and shot them after they had fallen.  Also, he flew from Chicago to DC to carry out this crime.  Looks like a classic death penalty case to me. 

Its clearly a part of organized terrorism, there wasnt only one member of the Narodnaya Volya. They need to find the weak link among his associates, he was too deep in the Socialist world and conspiratorial behavior in this day and social media age is difficult for the narcissistic types the modern Socialists use for their terror squads. 

 

If I was an observant dressed Jew, I would be packing. If I was to be involved in politics, like local elected office, I would carry. If I was a cop, I'd be seeking permission for an M4 in my auto. I would no longer display an American flag  on my home.

 

They have started a terror war against American citizens. Their supporters are the enemy. If they just gun random folks down in the streets for their hideous ideology they are terrorists. 

 

 

[Jingthing]

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

No, it means he wanted to kill Israelis and that's exactly what he did, kill innocent Israelis

No.

He was trying to kill Jews.

[Jingthing]

56 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

 

He is now in the one place where "Free Palestine" literally has no meaning: Washington DC Jail. Idealistic people do not adapt well behind bars.  Also, he just might get "loving" from a fellow inmate whether he wants or not. I just read a report that even after emptying his magazine on the couple he reloaded and shot them after they had fallen.  Also, he flew from Chicago to DC to carry out this crime.  Looks like a classic death penalty case to me. 

Yeah there are plenty of Jews to kill in Chicago but he wanted to make a bigger media splash. 

Be clear the so called Free Palestine brigade see this Jew hating terrorist as a hero.

[madone]

All those words, and they don't actually tell us what happened.

 

"News"

[Jingthing]

2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

They were Israelis?

The man was. The woman wasn't 

He was out to kill some random Jews is all.

[Jingthing]

2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Do you think it might of been in response to the 50,000 plus killed in Gaza?

So killing random Jews is helpful?

[Yellowtail]

15 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

So killing random Jews is helpful?

As far as the "Free Palestine" left is concerned, yes. Jews to them are vermin to be exterminated. 

[riclag]

1 hour ago, sqwakvfr said:

 

He is now in the one place where "Free Palestine" literally has no meaning: Washington DC Jail. Idealistic people do not adapt well behind bars.  Also, he just might get "loving" from a fellow inmate whether he wants or not. I just read a report that even after emptying his magazine on the couple he reloaded and shot them after they had fallen.  Also, he flew from Chicago to DC to carry out this crime.  Looks like a classic death penalty case to me. 

I read the victims were shot again as they were crawling to escape!

Let that sink in! 

Dc UsAtty Judge Pirro said more charges are coming .

[Mike_Hunt]

4 hours ago, Tug said:

He certainly should have been and that museum should have been monitored to prevent just this type of tragedy.you can bet your bottom dollar the rank and file in homeland security and the FBI are keeping their heads down trying to weather the chaos and ruin this administration is creating.i doubt many if any are being pro active on anything that crosses their desks.

Why would he be on anyones radar? 

[Mike_Hunt]

The shooter was a member Party for Socialism and Liberation, who happen to sound like a bunch of left wing losers. 

[impulse]

2 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

The shooter was a member Party for Socialism and Liberation, who happen to sound like a bunch of left wing losers. 

 

Probably explains why he wasn't on any watchlists...  Those are for conservative prayer groups.

 

[Rimmer]

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[Evil Penevil]

WARNING:  I am giving the link to the "manifesto" believed to have been written by Elias Rodriguez and published to an X account bearing his name.  The rambling 900-word document was published after Rodriguez was arrested but before his identity was made public by the police. It is dated May 20, 2025.  Don't open the link if you're likely to be bothered by the weird thoughts of a murderous individual. 

 

What's most disturbing to me is that Rodriguez' manifesto in places makes exactly the same points using the same reasoning as some posts by pro-Palestinians on AN.      Please note no official source or mainstream media source has confirmed that Rodriguez actually wrote and posted  the manifesto.  On X, it is possible to schedule posts for future publication.  There's no contradiction in the post first appearing after his arrest.

 

The manifesto is written articulately but not effectively.  It's disjointed and skips from point to point.   When the first two words are "Explication" and "Halintar" (sic),  you know it's going to be pretentious.  "Halintar" is a misspelling of the Indonesian word "halilintar,"  meaning lightning or a thunderbolt.  It's totally out of place in the opening of a manifesto on Gaza.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/th'-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

 

More details on the actual shooting:

 

Suspect in fatal shooting of 2 Israeli Embassy staff in D.C. wasn't on police's radar. Here is what we know.

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According to charging documents, video shows that after the suspect shot the couple, he walked closer to them and fired "several more times." A total of 21 rounds were fired from a 9 mm firearm. 

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Federal officials traced the weapon and say records show it was purchased by Rodriguez on March 6, 2020, in Illinois. The handgun was purchased legally, according to a person briefed on the investigation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-embassy-staff-shooting-suspect-elias-rodriguez-washington-dc/

 

[Patong2021]

11 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Yes.

it means he wants to free Palestine from the occupation.

 

And how does murdering people who want to  achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict .

Why would people who were raising money for humanitarian  groups, including humanitarian aid for Gaza be a legitimate target?

[Yellowtail]

3 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

And how does murdering people who want to  achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict .

Why would people who were raising money for humanitarian  groups, including humanitarian aid for Gaza be a legitimate target?

They do not want a peaceful resolution; they want to eradicate Isarael and the Jews. 

 

If the left loses the Jews to the right, they will not win another presidency for a long, long time. 

 

[Patong2021]

11 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Do you think it might of been in response to the 50,000 plus killed in Gaza?

 

Using your logic, similar events  in respect to  Darfur should be attacked and  participants murdered too.  After all, 150,000+ have been killed in the Darfur conflict and there is a genuine  starvation crisis ongoing. There was a fund raising event in Washington DC last January 27, sponsored by the Darfur Women Action Group, who's goal is to protect and advocate for the victims of genocides and mass atrocities. The attendees were not singled out for  murder.  

 

It is quite obvious that the attacker  made multiple assumptions, many of them wrong, He attacked people who were advocates for peace and who were trying to end the war and to raise funds to help people suffering in the conflict. He was specifically targeting people he assumed were jews. In that respect he was right. However, he could have  just as easily shot the attendees from the US  State Department, or the European  embassies who were in attendance. 

[Jeff the Chef]

The Israeli prime minister launched an attack on Starmer, Macron and Carney after the Washington DC shooting, but what do these latest developments mean for the Israel-Hamas war?

 

Sky's security and defence analyst Michael Clarke looks at the reaction to latest events, and what this means for the future of the war, and Hamas.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrnB8zvnRA&ab_channel=SkyNews