After a couple who work for the Israeli embassy was shot and killed leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum late Wednesday night, Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old man from Chicago, was arrested. D.

A prominent Palestinian author and activist callously ripped the two victims of the DC Jewish Museum shooting as “genocide cheerleaders” in a series of hateful tweets — saying she was shocked the bloodshed hadn’t “happened sooner.”

Authorities say Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, continued to fire on one of the two Israeli Embassy employees as she tried to crawl away.

Witnesses to the barbaric shooting of two young Israeli diplomats in Washington, DC, offered comfort to the alleged killer assuming he was a victim in an unmitigated display of humanity at the

He was associated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a far-left group that regularly posts anti-Israel rhetoric on social media.