A pro-Palestinian man is in custody after allegedly killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. late Wednesday. Police said the victims were a young couple who were about to be engaged.

Two members of the Israeli Embassy staff were gunned down outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, officials said.

The President led U.S. lawmakers in condemning the killings and said they were "based obviously on antisemitism."

A Chicago man has been arrested in connection to the slayings. A member of Gov. JB Pritzker's team was "shaken up but thankfully safe," the governor said in a statement Thursday.

U.S. authorities called the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., an “act of terror” and identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago.

Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were departing an event Wednesday evening when they were gunned down and killed.

Two Israeli embassy employees were shot and killed outside a Washington, D.C., museum Wednesday night. The FBI is looking into whether it was a hate crime.