He Victims of a fatal shooting Outside the Jewish museum in Washington, DC, has been identified as a young couple who worked at the Israeli embassy and were about to commit.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, and referred both as members of the Embassy staff. The Israeli embassy said the couple was “at the best moment of their lives.”
“No words can express the depth of our pain and horror before this devastating loss,” the embassy said in a statement on social networks. “Our hearts are with their families, and the embassy will be on its part in this terrible moment.”
Yechiel Leiter, an ambassador of Israel in the United States, told journalists that the couple was a “beautiful couple”, and said that Lischinsky had bought a engagement ring “with the intention of proposing his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem.” World leader Quickly convicted The murders.
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Sarah Lynn Milgrim
Sarah Lynn Milgrim’s father, Robert Milgrim, said he began working for the embassy in November 2023 after obtaining a degree at the University of Kansas and two master’s degrees, one at the American University in Washington, DC and the other. Rich Her titles focused on international studies and policies, she said, and she had been hired at the Israeli embassy before the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack That left 1,200 Israelis dead and touched the war in Gaza.
“This is the first real job after finishing his six years of education,” Robert Milgrim told CBS News.
The Chapter of the University of Kansas de Hillel, the organization of the world’s largest Jewish campus, remembered Milgrim as a “beloved student” whose “brilliant spirit and passion for the Jewish community touched everyone with the luck of meeting her.” It served at the Board of Directors of the organization, said Ku Hillel.
Before working for the embassy, Milgrim spent several summers in Israel, where he worked with “Palestinian and Israeli groups to unite them,” said Robert Milgrim. She made Palestinian and Israeli friends on those trips, she said.
“She loves Israel and loved everyone who lived in the Middle East,” Robert Milgrim said.
Robert Milgrim said his daughter with Lischinsky obtained a master’s degree at the American University. The two began to leave week after them, and the family “loved” Lischinsky, his father said.
He said that the couple flew to Israel on Sunday to meet Lischinsky’s family in Jerusalem, adding that it was tolerated that Lischinsky had his leg planning to propose on the trip.
“We didn’t know I was going to propose then,” Robert Milgrim said. “And the ambassador told us that he knew he had bought the ring and was going to be presented in Jerusalem.”
Robert Milgrim 
Yaron Lischinsky
Lischinsky was a national double national, AFP reported. Hey “spoke with love to grow” in Bavaria, a region in southern Germany, and was “very much in love with her childhood home,” said Lore Herzog, who knew Lischinsky since 2018. He has come from a large family, Bid.
“They loved everyone and talked about them all the time,” said Herzog.
Herzog remembered Lischinsky as a “very morally straight person with a very strong sense of justice.” The two with while they live in Jerusalem.
“Yaron was very happy and seemed to really love everything he did,” said Herzog, who now lives in Amsterdam. “It was his dream to work in international politics and relations.”
Robert Milgrim 
Suspicious of custody
Elias Rodríguez has been Appointed as suspicious in the shooting And he is currently in custody, authorities said. Rodríguez, a 30 -year -old boy from Chicago, was initially “observed walking from one place to another outside the museum” before approaching a group of four people, “produced a gun,” and shot Lischinsky and Milgrim, police officer.
Rodríguez entered the Jewish museum immediately after the shooting, and was arrested for the security of the museum, said Smith. The witness’s video shows that Rodriguez shouted “Free Palestine” while arrested.
Rodríguez had ruled out the weapon used in the shooting, but told the police where he was. Smith said from the leg.
Rodríguez also “sang” Palestine free, free and free “, while he was in custody,” said Smith.
The Metropolitan Police said that Rodriguez did not appear in an initial search for crime databases and was at the radar of the law application agencies. The mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, said the City Police Department and the FBI will investigate the shooting.
A source from the Department of Justice told CBS News that Rodriguez can make his first appearance in court until Thursday.
