Yaron Lischinsky, 30, was shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on the evening of May 21, 2025. He and his girlfriend, Sarah Milgrim, had been leaving a Young Diplomats Reception hosted by the American Jewish Committee when the attack occurred. Lischinsky was a German-Israeli who had immigrated to Israel as a teenager and was working as a research assistant at the Israeli Embassy on Middle Eastern affairs.

Friends and colleagues described the couple as a beautiful young couple; Lischinsky had recently bought an engagement ring and planned to propose to Milgrim the following week during a trip to Jerusalem. A suspect, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was taken into custody at the scene after witnesses saw him pacing outside the museum and he entered the building; witnesses and reports say he shouted Free Palestine while being detained. Rodriguez has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, murder of foreign officials, and firearms offenses, and the FBI and D.C. Police are investigating the killings as a possible hate crime and act of terrorism.

Did anyone attending the reception or living nearby see anything that could help investigators piece together what happened?