The suspect has also been charged with other offences including hate crimes and acts of terrorism.
“My office will not rest in our efforts to hold Elias Rodriguez accountable for this horrific, and targeted act of terror against Yaron Lischinsky, Sarah Milgrim and our Jewish community,” Pirro said earlier this year.
Prosecutors allege that ahead of the shooting, Rodriguez expressed support for violence against Israelis, including in social media posts where he allegedly wrote “Death to Israel”.
Prosecutors have said he travelled from Chicago to Washington with a handgun after researching an upcoming networking event for young Jewish professionals at the museum.
Lischinsky and Milgrim were leaving when the suspect fired 20 shots, killing them both, prosecutors allege. They were in a relationship and Lischinsky had bought an engagement ring, planning to propose to Milgrim on an upcoming trip to Israel, Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, has previously said.
After the shooting, Rodriguez then allegedly entered the museum, displayed a red keffiyeh, and said: “I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza.”
Prosecutors also say Rodriguez wrote a document called “explication” in which he expressed his support for Palestine and claimed Israel was trying to exterminate Palestinians.
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