After killings, suspected gunman sat with guests at D.C. Jewish museum
Moments after a burst of gunfire was heard outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington on Wednesday night, a breathless man in a blue suit rushed into the building.
Paige Siegel, a 30-year-old attorney and supporter of Israel who was attending a networking event at the facility, watched security let him in with several other people. She sat on a bench near the young man with the neatly trimmed beard and asked if he was okay, believing him to be seeking refuge from the unfolding violence. A friend of hers brought him a cup of water.
As the minutes ticked by, Siegel told The Washington Post in an interview, a dark thought popped into her head: What if he did it?
But she pushed it aside. The man appeared shaken up and kept muttering about calling the police, she said. She took him to be a normal person that you walk by on the street. She asked if he knew where he was and told him he was in a Jewish museum.
Suddenly, she recalled, he stood up.
He starts screaming, I did it. I did it for Gaza, she said. Then he shouted, Free Palestine.
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