Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin today in Washington DC in the aftermath of that shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum.
Two people are dead, Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Milgram,
a couple who both worked at Israel's embassy in the city.
They were shot
as they left an event at the museum by a man who'd been seen pacing up and down outside.
Israel's ambassador to the US, Yekiel Leiter,
spoke about the victims at a news conference last night.
The couple that was gunned down tonight in the name of free Palestine.
It's a young couple about to be engaged.
The young man purchased a ring this week with the intention of proposing to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem.
They were a beautiful couple who came to enjoy an evening in Washington's cultural center.
The suspected gunman was detained at the scene and he's been named by police as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago.
Filmed by a bystander, he was seen shouting free Palestine as he was taken into custody.
Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Saar,
says the shooting is a result of what he calls a toxic anti-Semitic incitement in the wake of the Hamas attacks of October the 7th and the war that ensued.
Yaron and Saar were murdered.
at the Jewish conference of the AJC.