US EditionCapital Jewish Museum shooting suspect indicted on murder and hate crime charges and could face death penalty
WASHINGTON, D.C., AUG 6 – Elias Rodriguez faces nine federal charges including hate crimes and premeditated murder after shooting two Israeli embassy staff at a museum event, with death penalty possible, prosecutors said.
- Elias Rodriguez has been indicted on charges of premeditated murder and hate crimes resulting in death related to the Capital Jewish Museum shooting.
- The indictment allows the Justice Department to consider pursuing its first death penalty case out of Washington, DC, in years.
- Prosecutors might find it challenging to convince a trial jury of the hate crimes due to a higher evidentiary standard.
- Rodriguez has been in federal custody since the fatal shooting of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim on May 21.
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Alleged shooter of Israel embassy staff in D.C. charged with a hate crime
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A man accused of shooting two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in May has been charged with committing a federal hate crime as well as first-degree murder.
The alleged murderer in Washington in May of an Israeli-American Jewish couple could face the death penalty if he is sentenced for murder and racist and anti-Semitic crime, the new federal prosecutor of the capital said on Thursday.
Suspect in shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers faces federal charges
(NewsNation) — A federal grand jury indicted Elias Rodriguez with hate crime and first-degree murder charges for allegedly shooting and killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, D.C., in May. Newly confirmed federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro announced the charges Thursday, noting that Rodriguez was being indicted on nine charges in total: Count 1: First-degree murder of a foreign official Count 2 and 3: Hate crimes resulting in de…
Alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez indicted on federal hate crime charges - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The man accused of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staffers in the back at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May was indicted Wednesday on federal hate crime charges. Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, was indicted on nine new charges, including local charges as well as two federal counts of hate crime resulting in death. The new charges join those already in place in the alleged murder of Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn …
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