Inside the Chilling Manifesto Behind the Deadly Attack on Washington D.C.’s Jewish Museum—What the Shooter Wanted the World to Know
Here’s a dark and twisted riddle for you: when does political rage become deadly violence — and does a manifesto ever really explain the horror it unleashes? Last Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., Elias Rodriquez, a 30-year-old from Chicago, seemingly answered that question with gunfire, taking the lives of an Israeli couple who were just stepping out of an event. According to a chilling document RadarOnline.com uncovered, Rodriquez claimed his brutal act was a revenge-driven “armed demonstration” against the Israeli strikes on Gaza he ranted about, blending desperation with distorted ideology. The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—young embassy employees and soon-to-be engaged—now symbolize a tragic flashpoint where global conflicts violently puncture everyday life. As the dust settles and authorities search for sense in senselessness, one can’t help but wonder: can declaring “Free Palestine” in the aftermath of violence ever mend the broken pieces left behind, or does it only deepen the divide? LEARN MORE.
RadarOnline.com has seen the document claimed to be written by Elias Rodriquez, a 30-year-old man from Chicago, who was arrested by cops on Wednesday night after opening fire at a group of four people exiting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, leaving a man and woman dead.
After killing the pair, he walked inside, where event security detained him and the suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” following his arrest, according to police.
The two victims of the shooting have been named as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
They were both Israeli embassy employees, and, according to the Israeli ambassador, Yechiel Leiter, they were a young couple who were about to become engaged.
He wrote the warped words in the document: “Halintar is a word that means something like thunder and lightning. In wake of an act people look for a text to fix its meaning, so here’s an attempt.”
Rodriquez highlights=ed the “mounting death tolls Israeli had obliterated,” which have sparked numbers so high, authorities are now unable to continue “counting the dead”.
And he took aim at “Western and Arab” governments who “who let this happen,” adding they “will never deserve the Palestinians’ forgiveness”.
He then namechecks Aaron Bushnell, the ex-U.S. airman who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington in February last year in an act of protest against the Gaza strikes, saying he intends to ensure his actions – and “others who have sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre” – were “not made in vain”.
Ending his alleged manifesto, Rodriquez attempts to defend “armed demonstration” by saying: “I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible, and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.”
He signs off the document with a message to his loved ones, writing: “I love you mom, dad, baby sis, and the rest of my familia, including you, O*****.”
The two victims of the shooting, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were both Israeli embassy employees, and, according to the Israeli ambassador, Yechiel Leiter, they were a young couple who were about to become engaged.
“Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues,” the embassy said on X. “They were in the prime of their lives. This evening, a terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC.”
President Donald Trump condemned the killings on Truth Social, writing: “These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!”
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