Elias Rodriguez, the suspect in the shooting deaths of two Israeli Embassy staffers, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and the murder of foreign officials, among other charges. Rodriguez is suspected of killing Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim on Wednesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.

The suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staff outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., has been charged. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Elias Rodriguez of Chicago told officers from the Metropolitan Police Department at the scene: ‘I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, I am unarmed’