Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago resident, was charged in the deaths of a young couple. Moments after a burst of gunfire was heard outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington on Wednesday night, a breathless man in a blue suit rushed into the building.

The gunman allegedly opened fire outside a Wednesday-night event at the Capital Jewish Museum and afterward shouted “Free Palestine.”

The authorities said the shooter was motivated by opposition to the war in Gaza when he killed two young Israeli Embassy employees in Washington.

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

The man and the woman were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum near Penn Quarter, Washington DC, and police have warned members of the public to avoid the area

Groups that monitor hate crimes said the Hamas attack in 2023 and the subsequent war had helped fuel tens of thousands of anti-Jewish incidents globally, including cases of verbal abuse and violence.