Welcome to the News Hour. Two Israeli embassy staffers were mourned today after they were shot and killed in the nation's capital last night.

The killings of the two young officials sparked immediate global outrage and are being investigated as a hate crime and terrorism.

The alleged assailant was charged late today with two counts of first-degree murder along with other crimes. He reportedly

yelled free Palestine after he was detained and admitted to the shooting. In a moment, Nick Schifrin

speaks with Israel's ambassador to the U.S., but first has this report. It was a hate crime that ended

a love story. 30-year-old Yaron Lashinsky planned on proposing to 26-year-old Sarah Milgram next week.

He never got the chance.

They're a beautiful couple.

Sarah was a beautiful soul that was taken away from us, brutally.

Ayelet Razin was a friend of Sarah Milgram, an American from Kansas, a budding diplomat

at the Israeli embassy who described herself as a peace builder.

One of the final photos she posted on Instagram taken in a Moroccan mosque.

They had nothing to do with Israel or Israeli's government policy, the war, nothing.

They were murdered because they were Jews.

Lyshnski was an Israeli German citizen who served in the Israeli military.

He was the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother.

In Washington, he was a political officer at the Israeli embassy.

His friends described him as kind and thoughtful.

We always say that God always take the good ones, and he was one of the best ones.

Ronelle Chauval was Lyshinsky's professor in Jerusalem.

He was what we call him a mensch, real human being smiling.

Our Jewish community must feel safe.

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