She made me want to be more Jewish,” said Amanda Birger, a former University of Kansas classmate who met Milgrim at KU Hillel, a Jewish organization at the college.

Communities across Kansas City continue to mourn Sarah Milgrim, from her friends and family in the Jewish community, to those in her after-school activities at her high school, Shawnee Mission East.

One of Sarah Milgrim's former colleagues said his first thoughts were "shock and disbelief" when he heard she was one of the embassy staffers who was killed.

A memorial is growing outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where two Israeli Embassy staffers, including a Kansas native, were shot and killed Wednesday night in what federal authorities are calling an act of terror.

Communities across Kansas City continue to mourn Sarah Milgrim, from her friends and family in the Jewish community, to those in her after-school activities at her high school, Shawnee Mission East.

"And so I feel action is always the right way to go forward, because you take pain and you do something with it. You create more positivity with the people around you in the world.”

As Milgrim tried to crawl away in a desperate bid to survive, Rodriguez chased her and shot her again, as detailed in the charging documents.

One of two Israeli embassy workers shot as they left an event, Sarah Milgrim worked for peace and against hate and antisemitism.

Grussgott is calling on members of the Jewish community to attend synagogue this weekend and to do a good deed in memory of Sarah Milgrim, and her boyfriend Yaron.

Nancy Milgrim shared that her phone rang soon after, and when she answered, it was Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the United States, on the line.