The sombre mood in the streets around Washington’s Capital Jewish Museum on Thursday morning seemed to be aptly caught by the cast-iron grey skies and lightly falling drizzle.
Roughly 12 hours after a gunman shot dead two Israeli embassy employees near the museum’s front entrance, residents and workers in the city’s Judiciary Square district were grappling with the sudden explosion of violence. Many had assumed they might have a certain immunity thanks to the neighboring presence of the Metropolitan police headquarters and Washington’s FBI field office. Both are situated on nearby streets.
