A 31-year-old Illinois man has been charged with two counts of murder after opening fire 21 times on a young couple exiting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., late Wednesday, according to a criminal complaint, shooting the victims in the back and then firing again at the woman as she tried to crawl away.

A young couple were killed by a lone gunman outside an event at a Jewish museum. Israel's prime minister Netanyahu blamed antisemitism.

In the years before he was accused of killing two Israeli Embassy employees, the suspect in the fatal shootings was an active participant in Chicago’s left-wing protest scene, speaking out against police violence and a proposed Amazon headquarters.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon described the shooting as “a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism” in a post on X. The shooting, which took place in the area of 3rd and F Street NW, killed a man and a woman, who have not yet been publicly identified. Others, including Israeli embassy employees, were injured.

Two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. have been fatally shot while leaving an event at a Jewish museum.The suspect yelled “Free, free Palestine” when he was arrested following the deadly attack,

“Kvetching Intensifies”: Antisemitic Discourse Online after the Washington Embassy Shooting

The suspect in the fatal shooting​ of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., has been identified as a 30-year-old from Chicago.

A Chicago man made his first court appearance to face murder charges in the shooting of two Israeli embassy staff members outside

FBI agents left a property in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood that is connected to the suspect in a deadly shooting in outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. with boxes of evidence in hand Thursday afternoon.