People who knew the Washington shooting suspect from his home city of Chicago told investigators he had been outraged by the killing of a 6-year-old child Muslim Palestinian child in 2023 and sought vengeance for his death.

CBS News Chicago has reported that when investigators interviewed people who knew Elias Rodriguez, who is accused of killing Israeli Embassy employees Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim on Wednesday night in Washington, they learned that the murder of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6, in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield, Illinois, affected him deeply.

The boy’s landlord was later convicted of murder and hate crime charges that alleged the landlord killed the child because he was Palestinian and Muslim.

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