The Department of Justice is investigating the Washington, DC, shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers as an act of terrorism and a hate crime, as details continue to emerge about the violent act,

Suspect Elias Rodriguez, 31, allegedly shouted “Free, free Palestine” after the Wednesday night's deadly shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.

Two Israeli embassy staff members were shot and killed while leaving a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

Elias Rodriguez, the suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff members, is a 30-year-old Chicago man.

The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were a couple about to become engaged, said Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter.

WASHINGTON — As D.C. continues to grapple with Wednesday night’s violent shooting that left a couple dead in front of the Capital Jewish Museum, a memorial for the two Israeli Embassy staffers killed has been growing since the shooting.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City Thursday evening to remember 26-year-old Sarah Milgrim, who was fatally shot in Washington, D.C. ,Wednesday evening.

Identifying who will go from anger to violence is like "trying to find which piece of hay is going to become a needle," one expert said.