Armed FBI agents clad in tactical gear stormed a Chicago apartment building reportedly connected to suspected terrorist Elias Rodriguez, who allegedly gunned down two Israeli Embassy workers in Washington, DC, Wednesday night.
FBI and law enforcement personnel investigate at a residence in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., believed to be associated with the terror suspect connected with the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staff. REUTERSVideo posted by NBC Chicago shows at least eight agents wearing camouflage and armed with rifles entering the front gates of the apartment building on a leafy green street in Chicago’s East Albany Park neighborhood.
Agents stormed the apartment building linked to DC shooting suspect Elias Rodriguez Thursday. NBC Chicago
Elias Rodriguez, who allegedly gunned down two Israeli Embassy workers in Washington, DC, Wednesday night. Katie Kalisher via Storyful“FBI Chicago is conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity in the Chicago area in relation to yesterday’s tragic shooting in Washington, DC,” the FBI Washington field office confirmed in a post on X.
Around a dozen law enforcement vehicles were seen parked outside the multi-unit brick building Wednesday morning, with federal agents spotted sitting in unmarked cars, The New York Times reported. FBI bomb technicians were also present at the scene.
The couple left the American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS Young Diplomats Reception just after 9 p.m. REUTERS
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were murdered outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. @yaron_li/XA window of the unit believed to be Rodriguez’s displayed a pair of signs mentioning Palestine. One read “Justice for Wadea,” a reference to a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy stabbed to death in Chicago by his landlord in October 2023. The landlord, incited by war between Israel and Hamas, was later convicted of murder.
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Another sign read “Tikkun Olam means free Palestine,” invoking a Hebrew phrase meaning “repairing the world,” The New York Times reported.
Rodriguez, 31, had allegedly chanted “Free, free Palestine” moments before he confessed to gunning down the couple, identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, as they left the American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS Young Diplomats Reception just after 9 p.m.
FBI raid the alleged residence connected with the Israeli Embassy shooting terror suspect. REUTERS
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stands near the site where two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot dead. REUTERSInvestigators are looking into whether Rodriguez is behind a hateful 900-word manifesto bearing his name and dated a day before the slayings that began circulating on social media after his arrest.
The manifesto appeared to suggest the killings were an act of political protest inspired by Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
FBI Director Kash Patel pledged the bureau would bring its full resources to bear as it investigates the horrific attack.
“Last night’s act of terror has the full attention of the FBI. Targeted anti-Semitic violence is an attack on our core values and will be met with the full weight of federal law enforcement,” he said on X Thursday.
