Israeli Embassy 'shooter' Elias Rodriguez has been charged with the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim and could face the death penalty if convicted

As Milgrim tried to crawl away in a desperate bid to survive, Rodriguez chased her and shot her again, as detailed in the charging documents.

In the years before he was accused of killing two Israeli Embassy employees, the suspect in the fatal shootings was an active participant in Chicago’s left-wing protest scene, speaking out against police violence and a proposed Amazon headquarters.

Milgrim, then a 17-year-old senior, voiced her concerns about the sickening messages and symbols — which included a swastika — that were painted on a storage shed on the campus of Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kan., in February 2017.

One of Sarah Milgrim's former colleagues said his first thoughts were "shock and disbelief" when he heard she was one of the embassy staffers who was killed.

An affidavit released in the criminal complaint against shooting suspect Elias Rodriguez says he fired at the embassy workers several times.

In the suburbs of Kansas City, there is a long established Jewish community that is active beyond its modest numbers. The rabbis of the different synagogues all know each other, and families are often members of more than one congregation.

People gathered in Wichita, Kansas on Thursday to pay homage to Sarah Milgrim, a Jewish woman killed in Washington D.C. on Wednesday as she was from Overland Park in Kansas. (AP Video: Nick Ingram)

Nancy Milgrim shared that her phone rang soon after, and when she answered, it was Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the United States, on the line.

Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel remembers having Shabbat dinners with Sarah Milgrim at the University of Kansas Chabad, where she had a large group of Jewish friends and was “full of energy.” “She was passionate.

With the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim at the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday night, the tip of the Jewish genocide spear struck at the

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were young Israeli Embassy staffers. They were murdered without regard for who they were, or what they believed.