A pro-Palestinian man is in custody after allegedly killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. late Wednesday. Police said the victims were a young couple who were about to be engaged.

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. Paige Siegel, a 30-year-old attorney and supporter of Israel who was attending a networking event at the facility,

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

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.

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

Days before they were killed outside D.C.'s Jewish Museum, Israeli Embassy staffer Yaron Lischinsky bought an engagement ring for his colleague Sarah Milgrim.