以色列使馆两名工作人员在华盛顿遭枪杀 芝加哥男子被控谋杀外国官员
2025年5月21日晚，以色列驻美使馆两名工作人员在位于美国首都华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的首都犹太博物馆（Capital Jewish Museum）门外遭枪击身亡。次日，来自芝加哥的 Elias Rodriguez 被联邦检方以刑事诉状指控谋杀外国官员等罪名。
据哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官办公室5月22日宣布，Rodriguez 被控的联邦罪名包括谋杀外国官员、使用枪支致人死亡、在暴力犯罪中开枪，另依哥伦比亚特区刑法被控两项一级谋杀。指控由联邦检察官 Jeanine Ferris Pirro、联邦调查局华盛顿外勤办公室助理主任 Steven J. Jensen 与大都会警察局局长 Pamela A. Smith 共同宣布。
诉状所附宣誓书称，5月21日当晚，博物馆正举办美国犹太委员会主办的活动，汇聚犹太专业人士与外交界成员；晚9时08分许，大都会警察局第一分局警员接报赶往第三街与 F 街西北路口的枪击现场。两名死者均为以色列使馆工作人员：Yaron Lischinsky 是以色列公民、以公务身份在美工作，在现场被宣布死亡；Sarah Milgrim 被送医后于9时35分被宣布死亡。
宣誓书还称，航空公司记录显示 Rodriguez 于5月20日从芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场飞抵里根国家机场；他被捕后经伊利诺伊州驾照与持枪者身份证确认身份。宣誓书并提到，Rodriguez 曾表达对2024年2月25日在以色列使馆门前自焚者的钦佩。
案件由联邦调查局华盛顿外勤办公室与大都会警察局调查，哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官办公室主办起诉、司法部民权司协助。检方提醒，刑事诉状只是指控，被告在法庭上被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
（来源：美国司法部哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官办公室）
Two Israeli Embassy Staff Members Shot Dead in Washington; Chicago Man Charged with Murder of Foreign Officials
On the evening of May 21, 2025, two staff members of the Embassy of Israel were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, District of Columbia. The next day, Elias Rodriguez of Chicago was charged by federal criminal complaint with the murder of foreign officials, among other offenses.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, which announced the charges on May 22, Rodriguez was charged in U.S. District Court with the murder of foreign officials, causing death through the use of a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and with two counts of first-degree murder under the D.C. criminal code. The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro, FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J. Jensen, and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela A. Smith.
The affidavit in support of the complaint states that the museum was hosting an event that evening organized by the American Jewish Committee, bringing together Jewish professionals and members of the diplomatic community, and that at about 9:08 p.m. Metropolitan Police Department First District officers were dispatched to a shooting at the intersection of 3rd and F Streets, Northwest. Both decedents were employees of the Embassy of Israel: Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen in the United States on official business, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Sarah Milgrim was pronounced dead at 9:35 p.m. after being transported from the scene.
The affidavit also states that airline records show Rodriguez flew from Chicago O'Hare Airport to Reagan National Airport on May 20, and that after his arrest he was identified by an Illinois driver's license and Firearm Owner's Identification Card. The affidavit noted that Rodriguez had expressed admiration for the actions of an individual who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25, 2024.
The case is being investigated by the FBI's Washington Field Office and the Metropolitan Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia with assistance from the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Prosecutors noted that a criminal complaint is merely an allegation, and that the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
(Source: U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia)
来源：美国司法部哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官办公室
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图片来源：图：位于华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的首都犹太博物馆（历史犹太会堂与现代馆舍），2024年6月摄。Ajay Suresh 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. (historic synagogue and modern museum building), photographed in June 2024. Photo by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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