Elias Rodriguez
Murderer of innocent Christian Israeli and American
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🏠 Background & Personal Info
• Hometown & Residence
• A 31-year-old Chicago native, specifically from the Avondale/East Albany Park area on the city’s North Side   .
• Family & Parents
• His father, Eric Rodriguez, served in the Iraq War and is reportedly a member of the Service Employees International Union. The family lives separately and has not publicly commented on the shooting  .
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🎓 Education & Work History
• University
• Graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in English   .
• Professional Career
• Worked in administrative and research roles:
• Former oral history researcher & logistics coordinator at The HistoryMakers, a nonprofit preserving African American stories  .
• Recently employed by the American Osteopathic Information Association in Chicago as an administrative specialist  .
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🏡 Living Situation & Community Involvement
• Lived in a middle-class apartment on Chicago’s North Side, with neighbors describing him as quiet, polite, and unremarkable   .
• Apartment environment contained visible pro-Palestinian signage, including advocacy linked to Wadea Alfayoumi, a Palestinian-American child tragically killed in Chicago   .
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🕊 Political & Activist History
• Activism
• Briefly associated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) around 2017, attending protests—PSL confirms no contact since then and no ongoing ties    .
• Active participant in Chicago protest movements, including Black Lives Matter and ANSWER Coalition actions   .
• Radicalization
• His social media and online manifesto reflect escalating ideological intensity focused on Gaza, including admiration for radical gestures and calls to “bring the war home.” Authorities are currently investigating those writings
it’s almost amazing how people run from me how people turn from me and on me a few people have seen me for a little bit like on here some of you specifically Mark he gave me money couple times others of you too. I don’t want money but like I have the best nonprofit that I need help with and it’s a pretty great investment I think.
This is what I wrote in the moment. No edits, no polish — just me speaking the truth like I always have.
“We pay them to poison us.
Then we pay them to fix us.
And they profit on both ends.
Even our healing is part of their business model.
We’re waking up.”
They should actually be scared. Because with this tool — this AI — guys like me, guys who never went to college, who were told we’d never make it, we finally have a way to fight back.
People like us aren’t expendable.
We’ve kept this country alive — working the jobs nobody else wants, grinding, surviving.
And now we speak truth.
We should figure out a new system where the things that keep us alive are rewarded — and the things that kill us…
We start to excise them from our lives with impunity and expeditiously
