And until the story changes, nothing will. And it can change.

“This is a horrific crime, and these crimes are not going to be tolerated by me and by this office,” Pirro said. “We’re going to continue to investigate this as a hate crime and a crime of terrorism, and we will add additional charges as the evidence warrants.”What will happen next?

Investigations continue into Rodriguez’s background and motives. Police cordoned off his home in Chicago, Illinois, as their probe continues.Police Chief Smith said law enforcement did not believe there was an ongoing threat to the community at present.FBI Director Kash Patel said he and his team had been briefed on the shooting.

“While we’re working with [the Metropolitan Police Department] to respond and learn more, in the immediate, please pray for the victims and their families,” he wrote on X.Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters her administration would not tolerate “violence or hate in our city”.

“We will not tolerate any acts of terrorism, and we’re going to stand together as a community in the coming days and weeks to send a clear message that we will not tolerate anti-Semitism,” Bowser said.

Across the Atlantic, in France, the country’s interior minister told police to “step up surveillance at sites linked to the Jewish community”. Security measures must be “visible and dissuasive”, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said in a message seen by AFP news agency.On May 6, India struck first. Or, as Indian media framed it, India defended first.

Operation Sindoor was announced with theatrical pomp. Twenty-four strikes in twenty-five minutes. Nine “terror hubs” destroyed. Zero civilian casualties. The villains — Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, “terror factories” across Bahawalpur and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan – were said to be reduced to dust.The headlines were triumphalist: “Surgical Strikes 2.0”, “The Roar of Indian Forces Reaches Rawalpindi”, “Justice Delivered”. Government spokespeople called it a “proportionate response” to the Pahalgam massacre that had left 26 Indian tourists dead.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singhdeclared: “They attacked India’s forehead, we wounded their chest.” Cinematic? Absolutely. Deliberate? Even more so.