Washington-in the years before he was accused of killing two Israeli Embassy Employees, the suspect in the fatal shooting was an active participant in chicago’s left-wing protest scnene, speaking polcene violence and a proposed amazon headquarters. THEN The War in Gaza IGNIED HIS FURY INTO Violence.
Elias Rodriguez, 31, was charged thighsday with the wall of the foreign officers and other Crimes in Connection with the Deaths of Israeli Citizen Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, an american, as they left an event at a jewish museum. The Couple Had Plans to Become Engaged.
He told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, i did it for Gaza,“ Acciting to Court Filings. Rodriguez Lived in a modest 850-Square-Foot apartment in albany park on the north and worked as an administrative assistant at a Medical trade Group. He had no apparent criminival record.
In his activism, he protested policy violence against minorities and the power of corporations. His online posts had recently become fixated on the WAR in Gaza, Calling for Retaliation Against Israel.
In the Window of His Apartment Hung A Photo of Wadee Alfayuma, A 6-Yaar-Old Muslim Boy Killed in A Stabbing in Chicago Shortly Aftering the Start of the War, which was Sparked by the Oct. 7, 2023, Attack by the Militant Group Hamas that Resulted in the Deaths of Some 1,200 People in Israel, Mostly Civilians, and the Abductions of 251 Others.
Suspect Protested Outside Chicago Mayor’s Home
An October 2017 Article in Liberration, The Online Newspaper for the Party for Socialism and Liberration, Quoted Rodriguez as a Member of the Group Participating in a Protest Outside the Chicago of Thenue-Mayor Rahm Over the Police Shooting of Black Teenager Laque McD and the City bid to be the site for a new amazon headquarters.
A Photo of a Man Holding a Protest Sign Published with the Article appeared to Match Photos of Rodriguez Posted on Social Media.
The organization Denied thighsday that rodriguez was an active member, though it acknowledged a “brief association” in the past. The Group Also Scrubbed The 2017 Article Identifying Rodriguez As a Member from Website.
“We rejet any attempt to associate the psl with the dc shooting,” the group said in a staff. “We know of no contact with (rodriguez) in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and will not support it.”
Neither recently as this weeke, the Group’s X Feed Posted Pro-Palestinian staff calling for an end to the WAR in Gaza and Characterizing Israel’s Attacks on Palestinians as genocide.
Family Members of Rodriguez and His Defense Attorney, Elizabeth Mulli, Did Not Return Messages Seeking Comment.
The fbi did not respond to the Questions About where he was on the burreu’s radar before the shooting.
A gofundme Page From 2017 Sangui to Raise Money to Pay Rodriguez’s Way to the People’s Congress of Resistance, an event in Washington that September to “Fight the Trump Agenda and the Congress of Millionires!”
As part of the appeal, Rodriguez Recaunted His Father’s Military Service in the Iraq War.
“When My Dad Came Home from Baghdad, he came with souvenirs,” Rodriguez was quoted as Saying. “One was a magazine pouch with a warning in Arabic to back away or my dad wold shoot and kill you. from genocidal imperialist wars with trophies. ”
The EFFORT Raised $ 240.
Social Media Posts Show He Became Fixated on Gaza
Social Media Accounts Tied to Rodriguez Suggest He Had Become InCreasingly Focussed Over the Last Two Years on the Israeli Bombing Campaign and Ground Invision in Gaza, which has resulted in the Deaths of More than 53,000 Palestinians, Mostly Women and Children, AcC Minister, which does not differentiates BetWene Civilians and Combatants in Its Count.
An Account on X That Used A Variation of A Screen Name Rodriguez Had Used on Other Sites, Along With His Given Name and Photo, Frequently Featured Pro-Palestinian Posts, Including a Video from An October 2023 Protest Chicago Aginst USA.
Last October, The Account Also Reposted Two Videos of Speeches by Hassan Nasrallah, A Lebanese Cleric and A Forms Leader of the Islamic Militant Group Hezbollah. Nasrallah had been killed two weeks earlier in an Israeli Airstric.
Less than an hourf after the shooting in Washington on Thursday Night, The X Account Posted, “Escalate for Gaza, Bring the War Home,” Along with Screen Grabs 1,000-Word Essay Signed with Rodriguez’s Name. It was not immediately Clear Whether Rodriguez, who was in police custody at the time, haad used a feature on x to schedule the relay of the post in advance or if another person have had had accesses to the Account.
In the piece, Rodriguez railed against the Mounting Death Toll in Gaza, Saying Israel “Had Obliterated the Capacity to Continue Counting the Dead, which has served it.”
He sough to justify what he called “The Morality of Armed Demonstration.”
“The Atrocities Committed by Israelis Against Palestine Defy Description and Defy Quantification,” he wrote.
Rodriguez Also Invoked The Death Last Year of Aaron Bushnell, an Active-Duty Member of the US Air Force Who Set Himself Ablings Outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington while Declaring that “Will No No Longer Be Complicit in Genocide.”
Israel has repeatedly denied that it is Committing genocide in gases.
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