Former Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, speaking out Thursday about the shootings of two Israel embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., tells Newsmax that such violence is growing even in places where he thought it would be “unimaginable.”

“These two young people, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were starting on their lives, and they’re gunned down,” Wilkie told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”

The victims, reportedly a couple who had been planning to become engaged, were killed when the gunman approached them and two others as they left the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire.

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