Inside the Chilling Manifesto Behind the Deadly Attack on Washington D.C.’s Jewish Museum—What the Shooter Wanted the World to Know
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.”
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