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Two staff mem­bers of the Is­raeli Em­bassy in Wash­ing­ton were shot and killed Wednes­day evening while leav­ing an event at a Jew­ish mu­se­um, and the sus­pect yelled, “Free, free Pales­tine” af­ter he was ar­rest­ed, po­lice said.

Is­raeli For­eign Min­is­ter Gideon Saar iden­ti­fied the vic­tims as Yaron Lischin­sky and Sarah Mil­grim. Lischin­sky was a re­search as­sis­tant, and Mil­grim or­ga­nized vis­its and mis­sions to Is­rael.

They were leav­ing an event at the Cap­i­tal Jew­ish Mu­se­um when the sus­pect ap­proached a group of four peo­ple and opened fire, Met­ro­pol­i­tan Po­lice Chief Pamela Smith said at a news con­fer­ence.