The alleged gunman, who shot two Israeli embassy employees, was arrested on the video that was detained during his screaming “Free, Free Palestine” after the righteous Samaritans helped him before they realized that he was the killer.
The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, 31, is allegedly opened fire and killed the couple outside the Jewish Museum, shortly after 9 pm in Washington, DC on Wednesday evening.
The museum was hosting an event organized by the American Jewish Committee.
Rodriguez was seen that he was suffering from bears by a security guard wearing a tactical urban police jacket and pushed towards a way out where two civilians rushed to help the policeman to subjugate him, the video recorded by the witness Katie Calcher and published in Instagram shows.
The guard got the alleged shooter behind his back without conflict.
The guard hears asking someone out of the camera if they “have handcuffs” after reaching his side.
The alleged gunman, with his arms behind his back by both the guard and the civilian, begins screaming “Palestine free, free” in the camera while pulling it from the door.
The head of the metro police in the capital, Pamela Smith, said during a press conference that the suspect was seen walking back and forth outside the museum, which led to the shooting, and claimed that he had a pistol flashing in front of a group of four people before the fire was opened.
Kalisher, who was attending this event at the reception of American Jewish Jewish diplomats at the museum, was at home when the shooting and Rodriguez saw the interior looking “sorrow.”
“We thought he just loved, he needed help,” Calcher told the BBC along with another witness, Uni Calin.
Calin said that people inside had rushed to the suspect, believing that he needed help.
Calin said: “People used to calm him down, bring him water, and take care of it.” “We did not know that someone executed people in cold blood.”
Only when the police rushed and the suspect pulled the red Kiva they realized and others he was the suspect's shooter.
Calin said the suspect told the police that he was “unarmed” and committed fire “in favor of Gaza.”
Calin recalls, “I did this for Gaza. Palestine is free. There is only one solution, the uprising revolution,” and continued to scream, “Free Palestine.”
Kalin also told the Associated Press that it was a shock, he chose the shooter targeting his event because he was “about humanitarian aid.”
Calin said: “How can we help each of the people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we combine Muslims, Jews and Christians to work together to actually help the innocent? Then here two people are killed in cold blood.”
The Israeli embassy confirmed that the victims are the employees of Yaron Lesinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgerim in a publication on Thursday.
The couple was scheduled to participate in Jerusalem next week before their killing.
Lesinski has worked as an assistant researcher in the political section of the embassy since September 2022 after spending three years in the Israeli Defense Forces, according to LinkedIn.
Her file on the Internet stated that Milgerim, who obtained certificates from Kansas University and the American University, has worked in the Department of Public Diplomacy at the embassy since November 2023.
President Trump condemned the deadly fire and said that the killings had been out of hatred and radicalism.
“These terrible killings must end, which clearly depends on anti -Semitism, now! Hate and radicalism have no place in the United States of America,” Trump wrote on the social truth.
Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi said she was at the scene of the former judge Janine Peru, who is the American lawyer in Washington and who will try his office.
