The father of the man charged with shooting dead two staffers from the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C, on Wednesday night was invited to witness President Donald Trump’s Joint Speech to Congress in March.
Elias Rodriguez, 30, a Chicago resident, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder on Thursday over the killing of Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, outside of the Capital Jewish Museum, where the couple had just attended an event on humanitarian aid for Gaza. Lischinsky was about to propose to Milgrim, officials have said.