President Donald Trumpexpressed his condolences to the victims’ families, saying the shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, was “based obviously on antisemitism.” He added: “Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA.”

Other top US officials also condemned the shooting Wednesday night:

Paige Siegel, an eyewitness on the scene after the shooting in Washington, DC that killed two Israeli Embassy staff members, told CNN she spoke to the suspected shooter before realizing he was the suspect.

The suspect ran into the Capital Jewish Museum after the shooting, where he waited for police to arrive, according to police and multiple eyewitnesses.

“He was so shaken when I spoke to him that he seemed harmless. Obviously I didn’t know at the time,” she said.

Siegel said that shortly thereafter, the police arrived and the suspect was apprehended while yelling “Free Palestine!”

Siegel said she is still processing what happened.

Jewish people “cannot allow fear to dictate how we’re going to live our lives,” the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington said following Wednesday’s fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff.

“It was a young couple about to get engaged and spend the rest of their lives together,” Ron Halber told CNN’s MJ Lee.

Still, he said, “The Jewish people are resilient. The people of Israel are resilient.”

The suspect named after Wednesday night’s deadly shooting is being interviewed by the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police along with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces, according to Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino.

Bongino said the shooting happened close to the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and that FBI police officers responded immediately and rendered aid after the attack.

The US Attorney’s office is on scene while the FBI reviews evidence at the Washington Field Office, he added.

Israeli officials expressed outrage and offered condolences following a shooting that killed two employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC on Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said America and Israel “will stand united in defense of our people and our shared values” following the attack that.”

“Our hearts are with the loved ones of those murdered and our immediate prayers are with the injured. I send my full support to the Ambassador and all the embassy staff. We stand with the Jewish community in DC and across the US,” the Israeli president’s statement read.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said “Israel will not surrender to terrorism.”

“Terrible news this morning with the shocking terrorist attack, in which two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington were murdered,” Sa’ar said in a statement on X.

‏Sa’ar has spoken to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who expressed his condolences and informed the minister that “an intensive investigation is underway.”

The fatal shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday occurred on the same night as the American Jewish Committee was holding an event for young professionals.

The sold-out “Young Diplomats Reception” is described as an event “bringing together Jewish young professionals (22-45) and the diplomatic community,” according to its Eventbrite page. The event was organized by ACCESS, the American Jewish Committee’s division for young professionals.

The two Israeli embassy staff members who were shot dead were leaving an event, according to Pamela A. Smith, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.

The theme of this year’s Young Diplomats Reception was “turning pain into purpose,” and featured speakers from the Multifaith Alliance and IsraAID, according to the Eventbrite page.

The event was scheduled from 6:30-9 p.m. ET.

CNN National Security Analyst Juliette Kayyem said the event would have likely hosted people from many different embassies.

“This was an event that was bringing lots of young people together whose countries probably disagree on things, to try to leave it to the next generation,” Kayyem said.

The man accused of killing a young couple outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night “pretended to be a witness” and waited for police to arrive for over 10 minutes before claiming he “did it for Gaza,” eyewitness Sara Marinuzzi told CNN.

Marinuzzi, 28, said gunshots rang out shortly after the event ended at 9 p.m.

The man asked security to call the police, Marinuzzi said. Once police arrived about 10 minutes later, Marinuzzi said the man took accountability for the crime, saying “I did it, I did it for Gaza. Free Palestine!”

Details are emerging about the deadly shooting that killed two people near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night.

Here’s how the attack unfolded:

President Donald Trump, in his first comments on Wednesday night’s shooting, sent his condolences to the families of the two Israeli Embassy staff members who were killed near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a news conference following a shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC, which killed two people, that she spoke with President Donald Trump “multiple times tonight.”

Bondi added that federal agencies will “work hand-in-hand” with DC authorities to do “everything we can to keep our citizens safe.”

“We’ll be doing everything in our power to keep all citizens safe, especially tonight our Jewish community,” she said.

Trump issued his own statement on Truth Social shortly after, sending his condolences to the families of the couple that was killed.

The two people shot Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC were a “young couple about to be engaged,” according to Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the US.

The couple was attending an event at the museum, the ambassador said. When asked by CNN’s Holmes Lybrand if the suspect registered for the event, Leiter said he didn’t know.

Pamela Smith, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, said that a suspect is in custody in connection with the shooting near Capital Jewish Museum that left two dead.

Smith said that the suspect, which she named as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, “approached a group of four people, produced a handgun and opened fire striking both of our decedents.”

After the shooting, Smith said that the suspect then entered the museum and was detained by event security.

The suspect chanted “Free Free Palestine” while in custody, Smith said.

The suspect, who was not previously known to police, identified where he discarded the weapon once in custody, Smith said. The weapon has been recovered, and “he implied that he committed the offense,” she added.

Following a shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday that killed two people, Mayor Muriel Bowser reassured the community that “there is no active threat.”

“I will say up front that there is no active threat in our community,” Bowser said at a news conference.

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, along with other officials, is giving an update to the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum.

Tal Naim Cohen, spokesperson at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, said two of the embassy’s staff members were shot on Wednesday night “at close range” while attending a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in the city.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a social media post on Wednesday that “two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.”

DC Police say they are investigating a shooting across the street from the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The Capital Jewish Museum is also nearby. The Israeli Embassy is working with law enforcement.

The Israeli ambassador was not involved in the incident and was not at the location when the shooting happened, an embassy spokesperson told CNN.

Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said his organization was hosting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday evening.

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X that she’s at the scene of the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday night.

Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, reacted to the reports of the shooting on Wednesday, saying on X: