She made me want to be more Jewish,” said Amanda Birger, a former University of Kansas classmate who met Milgrim at KU Hillel, a Jewish organization at the college.

Rodriguez’s charges were laid out in a criminal complaint. He was informed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh during an initial appearance in federal court Thursday that some of the charges against him carry the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison, officials said in the briefing later that afternoon.

Eric Rodriguez, who described himself as a disabled veteran of the Iraq War, took part in anti-Trump demonstrations opposing cuts in federal government programs.

The suspected terrorist who opened fire on two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, DC, unleashed nearly two dozen rounds at the soon-to-be-engaged couple — with victim Sarah Milgrim attempting to crawl away after collapsing to the ground,

The suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staff outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., has been charged. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Sources revealed that Rodriguez, well known to Chicago police as a left-wing rabble rouser, traveled to Washington, D.C., on a United Airlines flight.

Federal court records are shedding new light on the shooting deaths of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside the Capital Jewish Museum. Elias Rodriguez is accused of fatally shooting the couple around 9:08 p.