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Elias Rodriguez, an American writer and researcher from the city of Chicago, specialized in documenting the functioning of American leaders of African descent, and was a member of the Socialist and Liberation Party, one of the far left parties.
His name emerged after being accused of carrying out an armed attack in front of the Jewish Museum in the American capital, Washington, on May 21, 2025, killing two employees at the Israeli embassy.
Who is Elias Rodriguez?
Elias Rodriguez was born in 1995 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and obtained a Bachelor of English from the University of Illinois.
After that, a content writer worked for several companies in the field of technology inside and outside the United States of America, then joined the “History Manufacturers” Foundation in 2023, and became a researcher in oral history, a branch of history science that depends on the collection and documentation of personal accounts and oral memories of individuals who witnessed certain events.
Rodriguez focused on his work on the institution on documenting prominent leaders of American society of African descent.
Rodriguez lives in the Aveneld neighborhood of Chicago, and loves reading, writing fictional stories, listening to music and watching cinema.
Sources say that it belongs to the Socialist and Liberation Party, an active American -American political party since 2004, and believes that the only solution to the worsening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.
The party also shows that the “revolution” is the only way to end capitalism and establish socialism, as the party has emerged in the movement of universities and American streets against the aggression that Israel has been on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
Washington attack
The American authorities accused Elias Rodriguez of carrying out an armed attack in front of the Jewish Museum in Washington on the night of Wednesday, May 21, 2025, and killed employees of the Israeli embassy who were attending a party to receive young diplomats organized by the American Jewish Committee, a group of advocacy for Israel.
The Capital Police explained that the Rodriguez record is free from any precedents that make him the subject of law enforcement monitoring.
American media reported that Rodriguez targeted the victims from a close distance of about 10 shots, and that he chanted “freedom for Palestine” and said “I did so for Gaza”, and he did not escape the site of the accident, and waited for the police to arrive near the museum gate.
The FBI confirmed that the suspect “acted individually, and there is no information about his work within a specific organization.”