Video taken by an attendee at the Young Diplomats Reception at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night hosted by the American Jewish Committee’s D.C. Young Professional Board captured the moment when alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago according to police, was detained after shooting and killing two Israeli Embassy staffers just outside the museum, located in the 500 block of 3rd Street, NW, near the FBI field office for D.C.
Rodriguez is seen on video shouting as he was being detained. “Free, free Palestine,” in the same cadence as heard at communist-led protests on American college campuses. An eyewitness reported Rodriguez threw a red keffiyeh on the floor and also chanted, “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution.”
Josh Kraushaar, editor in chief of the Jewish Insider, reported a source saying the what turned out to be the alleged gunman entered the museum after the shooting, “from a witness: “After the shooting a guy came inside saying he saw it and needed water and a safe space, then whipped out a keffiyeh and yelled free Palestine a bunch before being escorted out by police.”
(Police later said Rodriguez showed police where he had ditched the