over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.

In his activism, he protested police violence against minorities and the power of corporations. His online posts had recently become fixated on the war in Gaza, calling for retaliation against Israel.In the window of his apartment hung a photo of Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Muslim boy killed in

shortly after the start of the war, which was sparked by the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that resulted in the, mostly civilians, and the abductions of 251 others.A neighbor, John Wayne Fry, told reporters that Rodriguez and a woman who lived with him appeared to be “very sensitive people, especially about the issue of Palestine.”

An October 2017 article in Liberation, the online newspaper for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, quoted Rodriguez as a member of the group participating in a protest outside the Chicago home of then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel over theand the city’s bid to be the site for a new Amazon headquarters. A photo of a man holding a protest sign published with the article appeared to match photos of Rodriguez posted on social media.

The organization denied Thursday that Rodriguez was an active member, though it acknowledged a “brief association” in the past. The group also scrubbed the 2017 article identifying Rodriguez as a member from its website.

“We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting,” the group said in a statement. “We know of no contact with (Rodriguez) in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it.”National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Juneau, Alaska (1,595 square feet)

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